On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > Few people have a deep background (e.g. graduate level math) and are > also well educated in computer science. I'm not sure what the reasons > are, but it is true generally of graduate students (in math) at > Berkeley. Few graduate students in computer science have deep > backgrounds in math (except a small percentage may be good at > statistics, computational complexity, discrete math, logic, and > perhaps numerical analysis). For projects I have run, requiring > computer science and (say) understanding of conformal mapping, hardly > any student is fully qualified.
This is indeed the case, and it's really unfortunate. Do you have any thoughts on how to lessen this breach? It seems to me that mathematics and computer science should be pretty close together. They were close in the origins, and with the current trends they should be getting close together again... Gauss was already a computer scientist, and definitely not the first one... The challenge IMO is whether we can educate students in the interface between the two, or at least educate students in computer science and students in mathematics to work together. I think grad school is late for this; it needs to start in college. Grad students are already not (on average) the best programmers, because the good programmers can get "real" jobs quicker than they can even think about grad school. Not an offense, and there are for sure many, many, many notable exceptions to this, of course. Gonzalo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
