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		sn6uv on May 31, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's Not Call It "Computer Science" If We Really ... Computational maths (research area of mine) is its own field, and is very different to computer science. A introductary (undergrad) computational mathematics course at my university covers; numerical solutions to PDEs, Inverse problems, Regularisation problems, numerical optimisation etc.

jeffdavis on May 31, 2012 [–]

I should have looked for a name conflict first, I suppose, but my point is that "science" doesn't seem like the right word to describe most of CS.

I'm not saying it's incorrect, but it just doesn't seem to fit well.

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