Guest spacemonkey Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 Found this on slashdot http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html But I thought it was an interesting article, although nothing I didn't already know. Enjoy (or not depending on your fancy)
Guest HungrySPV Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 Yeah that is quite interesting actually. Bit too long though - I stopped after a few pages, but will save the article to read on the tube. Reminded about some stuff (slighty off the article but still very interesting) about the most advanced forms of maths being used by some Artists. I think lots of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous art work was based around maths, and lots of Arabic and Islamic Art was based on Geometric shapes and maths. So I suppose the more advanced you become in your "technical" field the closer you get to an "artistic" side, or vice versa. Its definitely time they broke down the "Computer Science" field as its still a bit of a tough one to explain when people wonder why I can't fix their PC even though I am in the Computing Field !! You do hear about "Technical Evangelist" which companies think is a really cool sounding name but that sounds really sad as well. Well anyway its an interesting read for anyone who falls in that Tech/Square/Computing/Left Brain/Etc bucket but thinks maybe they could be in the other one !! Well I haven't actually finished the article but I think thats where its heading.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted May 8, 2003 Report Posted May 8, 2003 So I suppose the more advanced you become in your "technical" field the closer you get to an "artistic" side, or vice versa. Don't some universities offer MA's in Mathmatics? :) I read a few pages, busy day at work though so didnt finish it. It was a good read all the same though, one for the bookmarks...
Guest SirGaz Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 Don't some universities offer MA's in Mathmatics? :) As far as academia is concerned, Maths is an art. You get a Bachelor of Arts (BA) rather than a Bachelor of Science (BSc) for any Maths degree and as as Mono states, you can get an MA as well. My brother is a doctor of Maths. Quite scary thinking he could be operating on you with no medical training what so ever :wink:
Guest madu Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 This thing kept me at work for extra 10 minutes last night... hehe. I have not done any programming apart from playing with Basic when I first got my PC and had no games and recently I've learned a bit about VBA code... But it does resemble some things and indeed was an interesting read (and quite unusual too). Thanks for keeping us entertained at work Spacemonkey!!
Guest Gorskar Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 As far as academia is concerned, Maths is an art. You get a Bachelor of Arts (BA) rather than a Bachelor of Science (BSc) for any Maths degree and as as Mono states, you can get an MA as well. Erm..... no I don't think that's right: http://www.man.ac.uk/study/prospectus/unde...eaching_method= I should know!
Guest SirGaz Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 Erm..... no I don't think that's right: http://www.man.ac.uk/study/prospectus/unde...eaching_method= I should know! I guess from the "I should know!" that you're doing a Maths degree :) Looking at the link there is an MMath (Hons) degree. No idea what that is but it could in the last few years the powers that be changed the MA to an MMath :? 10 years ago when I was at Uni it was definately an art degree for a pure maths course but I guess it could have changed since then.
Guest Emad Posted May 9, 2003 Report Posted May 9, 2003 Here at Oxford everythings a BA :) Currently on a BA in Maths and Comp Sci - exciting as it sounds..
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