Re: Am I a crank?

schoenfeld.one@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Han de Bruijn wrote:

Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

*Fortunately* mathematics is not an experimental science.

Not true. Part of modern mathematics _is_ an experimental science.
In very much the same way as physics is: theory as well as experiment.
Or would you like to say that structural (numerical) analysis is not
a form of mathematics? And how about computing a large prime number?

Welcome to the 21th century!

Wouldn't that be computer science?

Is a simple calculation by hand (like 1 + 1 = 2) "computer science" ?
Or is it just mathematics? In the latter case, computing a large prime
is also mathematics, because it could be done - in principle - by hand.
(What else does computer science add except more speed and more space.)

Han de Bruijn

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