Re: Graduate studies in Mathematics

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<1182277718.201283.234470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
junoexpress <MTBrenneman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course, there will be a slew of posts to the contrary, however most
of these will come from people who are either pure mathematicians or
people who have little interaction with people who actually are
engineers. And there will always be the few geniuses who can bridge
disciplines, but few people fall into that category.

I am not a genius, nor a pure mathematician, nor out of
touch with engineering. I went to a good technical
university of the sort that turned out engineers a
couple years behind an engineer from a more practical
university. I was and remain to this day shocked at the
rejection of mathematics by computer programmers, when
the whole basis of computation is pure mathematics. How
do these guys make sense of two's complement
arithmetic? How do they reconcile the amount of
mathematics at the very beginning of
_The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_ with their bias?

--
Michael Press
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