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exhazetoday at 8:38 PM0 repliesview on HN

You are referring to Boubakhism, not mathematics.

“Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural sciences. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap” - Vladimir Arnold

On the matter of computer science having anything to do with computers, please refer to Djikstra.

It’s about computation, not computers - an application of mathematics, predominantly thanks to Turing, Von Neumann, and Claude Shannon’s masters’ thesis; though ofc many others as well but I see them as three individuals who made the minimal structurally necessary contributions - VNA and silicon are one of many possible substrates.

Also in the service of others around us.