Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The language of code



Mathematicians and physicists may have a "love-hate relationship" because they don't speak the same language. Fortunately, the mathematician and the physicist can meet at the computer (numerical relativity, quantum Monte Carlo, etc.) and begin to speak a common language: The language of code.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_relativity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Monte_Carlo
haskell.org/haskellwiki/Numeric_Quest
...


(There really is no concrete language of mathematics until it's expressed in code: LaTeX/Mathematics for display, a coding language for execution.)


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