#Mathematics for Computer Science

[er-cryptid]

alright nerds--

^tried to include as many as possible

[catscomputerscreativewriting]

It's so funny to me that people think of Math/Mathematicians as being hyper-logical and rational. Like, have you seen some of the wild things hiding in the Math?

Did you know there are non-computable numbers?? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant)

Did you know that there are things that are true, but we can't prove them??? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems)

Did you know that we can prove that something exists, and yet never actually figure out what that thing is?? (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonconstructiveProof.html)

Math is crazy. Math is wild. Math hardly makes sense, and when you think you understand the weirdest parts of it, everyone who hears you explain it to thinks you're a gibbering lunatic.

"In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them." - von Neumann

(please share more unhinged math with me, i want to see more scary math)

[felix-zarenium]

bro wdym the Pope was a math major from Villanova in undergrad im crying TT TT TT what is the catholic church's official stance on P vs NP please i have a theory of comp exam, can he just, like, announce that P=NP pleaseeeeee

[cyanogen-miasma]

nerd fight

my money's on geologist or engineer but I'm the one making the poll so I can't vote

feel free to reblog with reasons why you think your chosen STEM nerd would win in a fight against all the others

edit: for some reason I can vote

[sketchalicious]

decided to take the layton sona thing a little seriously lol

lots of fun trying to see how id be in this time period while also trying to add character. favorite part of making "sonas" isjust seeing how well of a plot you cuold make while still keeping yourself visible.

vv is an alt of like the antagonist thing idk

ouuugh i love being cringe but free...i have a steampunk rabbit hat and phantom of the opera esc mask n i thought it'd look cool in a villain design

idk ,,maybe something something to be an antagonist this character would've fallen into their own creation in an attempt to reach some goal n is now just evil and mean and angry.havent fleshed it out but its fun to draw. kinda wanna make a friend make a sona/find someone else's to draw them as homies lol

[eclipsellium]

AAAAAAHHHH I HAVE A MATH TEST TMRW

Normally, I’m not so stressed, but I missed class this week (I was skipping shame on me 😭) and I have no clue what’s going on… Me and the math teacher are besties because he’s the coach of the golf team, so I’m scared of disappointing him with my bad test scores.

I also had a long lab in chem this week. It’s really sad because we got bad results even though we ran our trial for over and hour lol. I think it’s my lab partner’s fault because he keeps on putting his crusty fingers all over the cuvettes which is messing up the spectrophotometer. Hopefully he actually writes his part so it’s not another repeat of last year.

- Practice midterms for matrices

- Grade practice midterms

- Write lab report

- Debug binary system simulation

- Work on astro research paper

- Work on program applications

- Finish new deal research

- Finish college assessment

- Email people back 😬

Don’t ask me why we have a midterm in January… I have no clue.

[then-ponder]

Rate your favorite logic notation

[pv1isalsoimportant]

[lobotomizedskull]

[mindblowingscience]

Is it possible to deduce the shape of a drum from the sounds it makes? This is the kind of question that Iosif Polterovich, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal, likes to ask. Polterovich uses spectral geometry, a branch of mathematics, to understand physical phenomena involving wave propagation. Last summer, Polterovich and his international collaborators—Nikolay Filonov, Michael Levitin and David Sher—proved a special case of a famous conjecture in spectral geometry formulated in 1954 by the eminent Hungarian-American mathematician George Pólya. The conjecture bears on the estimation of the frequencies of a round drum or, in mathematical terms, the eigenvalues of a disk.

Continue Reading.

[catscomputerscreativewriting]

Today on episode 8923173289119 of "Programmers Should Not Be Allowed To Name Anything Ever Again":

(The paper in which I found this citation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3236797)

(The actual paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-27764-4_6)

[soapdispensersalesman]

Still the wildest find at the computer science section of the library:

same energy as this:

Computer science people fascinate me so much, what kind of things are going on inside the terminal?

(side note: this made me super excited about the next update of my saturation plugin)

The "software engineer to living off the grid in a cabin far away from society" pipeline needs to be studied:

What was the name of that former Gameloft employee again who now makes Instagram videos in a cabin in the middle of the woods?

[unnonexistence]

one of my friends is a biologist & i was really amused hearing some of her stories yesterday because they put into context just how believable newt's kaiju drift is as Shit A Biologist Would Do. like my friend has personally met both a guy who got infected with a botfly larva and didn't do anything to remove it (because he just didn't mind), and another guy who identified a tapeworm species by intentionally exposing himself to it (he had it narrowed down to 2 species and needed to know if it was the one that would infect humans) (it was)

[mishtiikrishna]

hey guys

need a lil help so when u see this can u reblog? for more outreach is all

so basically I want opinions ™️ on whether integrated 5 year M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computing (in a prestigious university) is a good course or not.. when comparing it to CSE core (in a slightly lower college).

like what do u guys think? in terms of placements, syllabus, and all the things u feel is relevant.

im also interested in both actually. but i think i lean more towards the M.Sc.

need a lil help and opinions is all in deciding this. thanks!!

edited: integrated 5 year MSc course i tots forgot that 😭 means BSc + MSc

thanks @daydreamingastronauts

[planet-mari]

let’s see some love for the pigeonhole principle!

[chatdomestique]

Students complaining about basic algebra: “Whose idea was it to put the alphabet in math??”

Everyone in discrete mathematics: