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jlarcombe | 3 months ago

the Oxford joint schools degree was called "Mathematics and Computation" for many, many years

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chihuahua|3 months ago

I got the impression that they thought computer science was a fad that was going to go away soon.

jlarcombe|3 months ago

Yes I remember your comment to that effect on the last thread that touched on this topic! From memory I think I was ten years after you and either I had different expectations or the course had changed radically because I had a much more positive experience.

vatsachak|3 months ago

These days you can have math and real computation; proving theorems through reducing terms in Lean