http://writtenandread.net/source-as-a-safeguard/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:02:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://writtenandread.net/source-as-a-safeguard/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Ingolf Schäfer Thu, 20 May 2010 17:08:33 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=230#comment-617 Just two quick remarks. First: Mathematics is not a natural science. Second: As a fellow mathematician I do not fully agree with Joris van der Hoeven's statement. It is not the main problem that there is little value for programming in math. Indeed, much mathematical software is done by mathematicians, but the problem is that there is still little value for free and open source software. MuPAD may serve as one example, but there are many others. Just two quick remarks. First: Mathematics is not a natural science. Second: As a fellow mathematician I do not fully agree with Joris van der Hoeven’s statement. It is not the main problem that there is little value for programming in math. Indeed, much mathematical software is done by mathematicians, but the problem is that there is still little value for free and open source software. MuPAD may serve as one example, but there are many others.

]]> http://writtenandread.net/source-as-a-safeguard/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Kevin Thu, 06 May 2010 08:10:23 +0000 http://writtenandread.net/?p=230#comment-555 I like the van der Hoeven quote, reminds me of http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/pedersen-last-word-2008.pdf (which I keep recommending to everyone =D) I like the van der Hoeven quote, reminds me of http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/pedersen-last-word-2008.pdf (which I keep recommending to everyone =D)

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