[FOM] 827: Tangible Incompleteness Restarted/1
Timothy Y. Chow
tchow at math.princeton.edu
Wed Sep 25 18:12:16 EDT 2019
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Joe Shipman wrote:
> No, I meant specifically "computation theory" as practiced by computer
> scientists in computer science departments, which involves both much
> mathematics of graph-theoretic and combinatorial types, and much
> attention to concrete measures like running time, memory space,
> communication bandwidth, and program size.
Thanks for the clarification.
But I think that the thought process is something like this: They regard
"computation theory" as "not math." They might say, chemistry is a fine
and respectable subject, and if quantum chemists find spectral graph
theory useful, then more power to them; but that doesn't mean that
spectral graph theory is math.
Tim
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