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gnfargbl | 22 days ago

By the same argument, it's mathematics because John Conway was a mathematician, and it's physics because Ulam and Von Neumann were physicists.

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psychoslave|22 days ago

KineticLensman|22 days ago

Actually, the bottom layer from which God created the cosmos was originally Computer Science. Where else do you think all the chaos came from?

gnfargbl|22 days ago

And that's my point; it's okay to create new names for sub-disciplines, as Wolfram is doing here. Because that's what we have been doing since the days of Aristotle.

JadeNB|22 days ago

I've never understood why we first become masters of science only to become doctors of philosophy ....

mathgradthrow|22 days ago

Von Neumann was a mathematician, thank you very much.