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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CS education [engineering, mathematics, and computer science]
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.090132.10945@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 17 Nov 89 09:01:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1989Nov17.090132.10945
References: <1398@cs.rit.edu> <34770@regenmeister.uucp> <5481@nucleus.UUCP>
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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dar@nucleus.UUCP (Dario Alcocer) writes:

>In article <34770@regenmeister.uucp>, chrisp@regenmeister.uucp (Chris Prael) writes:
>> .....
>> computing and math have nothing fundamental in common.  Most of the 
>I'll have to disagree with you Chris.  I can think of two branches of
>mathematics that have _everything_ to do with computing...

>Graph thoery - Has contributed many of the data structures we use,
>Combinatorics - study of _discrete_ mathematics, useful in alogirth design

And how about computational complexity theory, logic, and numerical
mathematics ?

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Reino R. A. de Boer
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl