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Anonymous Mon 11 May 05:13:59 2020 No.11658859 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11658877 >>11659058 >>11659813 >>11661344

Which field In computer science, in your opinion, requires the most math? I want to study computers, but my true passion is mathematics. I’ll do anything from discrete math to statistics. Yes I read the notice, but I think this more of a general computer science question as well.

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 05:15:07 No.11658863 Report

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computer engineering perhaps?

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 05:19:11 No.11658874 Report

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>>11658863
Hmm.. not interested in hardware.

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 05:20:05 No.11658877 Report

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>>11658859
Theory of computation. algorithms, complexity etc

If you mean an industry career field, maybe machine learning?

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 06:33:28 No.11658978 Report

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It depends a bit on the type of math you want to do.
Complexity theory and algorithms use a lot of discrete maths and discrete probability, while things like computer algreba or crypto uses more conventional mathematics like algebra, real analysis.

If you're serious about it, a lot of universities offer a cursus on math/computer science. In a good one you'll see all the different fields and you can chose.
At least in France, this is what I'd recommend anyone who likes math to do. The competition is not as strong, there are a lot of interesting topics and you can always fall back to industry if academic life is too hard.

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 07:16:22 No.11659058 Report

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>>11658859
If you want to really do the most hardcore, gut-wrenching and thankless job you can dedicate yourself to improving bounds/asymptotics for popular algorithms.
Literally know a guy who managed to get hired at a very good hedge fund in europe purely because that was his masters project, got taken ahead of people with much better grades. But that paper was just a fucking shitshow, it’s not for everyone

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 13:43:36 No.11659714 Report

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b u m p

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 14:37:47 No.11659813 Report

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>>11658859
Machine Language
Hardware Conceptualization

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 14:40:12 No.11659817 Report

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Machine Learning algorithms

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 23:18:46 No.11661333 Report

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>>11658863
Computer engineering is neither a subset nor a superset of computer science

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Anonymous Mon 11 May 2020 23:22:05 No.11661344 Report

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>>11658859
You’ll find most subfields in TCS have avenues that admit lots of mathematics. There are some complexity theorists and algorithmicists who just use some combinatorics and results from algebra. Then there are those who use nullstellansatz in communication bounds, complex analysis for average case runtime, topology to study noise filtering, geometry to study etc, and so on - just look up “<X field of mathematics> in theoretical computer science” with google and you’ll find a bunch of PI’s studying it.

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Anonymous Tue 12 May 2020 06:38:30 No.11662647 Report

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