Timeline for What programming language should a professional mathematician know? [closed]
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 7:15 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 7:15 | history | closed |
Gerald Edgar Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta user6976 user1073 arsmath |
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 6:47 | comment | added | mathreadler | @BenCrowell all languages don't work the same way. If you come from Java or c for example, you can try to write everything using for loops in matlab, but you will be punished by slow code. | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 0:16 | comment | added | Michael | @GerryMyerson, outsourcing programming to incompetents is a very common mistake in academia; sometimes otherwise excellent research in numerical methods and algorithms leads to subpar outcome because of that. If your research has engineering applications and you are not a good programmer you'd be better off partnering with a good programmer rather than relying on students. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 22:41 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson |
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| Aug 24, 2018 at 12:25 | answer | added | user44143 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 14:32 | answer | added | Geordie Williamson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | Praphulla Koushik | @GeraldEdgar Can you then vote to close this as off topic.. I did flag as duplicate of another one.. It got declined.. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 13:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 22, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | @PraphullaKoushik ... agreed. This question is primarily a matter of opinion, which is off -topic. Or a good subject for discussion, which is also off-topic. | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 10:18 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 22, 2018 at 9:15 | answer | added | Carlos Freites | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 3:01 | comment | added | Praphulla Koushik | How different is it from mathoverflow.net/questions/11084/… ?? That question is closed where as this question remains open.. On what basis should one see these as different? | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 0:27 | answer | added | bandybabboon | timeline score: -5 | |
| Aug 22, 2018 at 0:08 | answer | added | Joel David Hamkins | timeline score: 35 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 17:16 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | user21349 | This is sort of like saying, "More and more I am becoming convinced that one should know at least one notation for differential geometry very well as a mathematician of this century." You may or may not need to know differential geometry for your work in your field, and if you do need to know it, the main thing is to understand it, not what notation you will use. If you know one programming language, learning another is just a minor chore, like learning a new notation. But the ideas of computer science and programming (which are two different things) are nontrivial. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 16:46 | comment | added | mathreadler | Python or mathematica or matlab. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 14:55 | answer | added | Kimball | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 14:52 | answer | added | gjvdkamp | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 14:20 | comment | added | Walfrat | Also what is your goal once oyur learn that programming language ? Use it to teach people ? Use it to support your research ? Use it in a industrial context to produce a delivery ? | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 12:47 | answer | added | Paul Siegel | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 12:39 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Academic mathematicians should know a student who can do their programming for them. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 12:36 | answer | added | Chris Tennant | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 12:21 | answer | added | leftaroundabout | timeline score: 23 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 12:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 21, 2018 at 11:52 | comment | added | Alex M. | Possible duplicate of What programming languages do mathematicians use? | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 11:18 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Aug 21, 2018 at 10:34 | answer | added | Per Alexandersson | timeline score: 61 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 9:48 | answer | added | irchans | timeline score: 9 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 9:44 | answer | added | Manuel Bärenz | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 9:01 | comment | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | Depends on your intended use. I recommend my students not familiar with programming to start with Python which has many useful math packages. A more specialized program I recommend is R. It is extremely versatile in probabilistic and statistical applications. Myself I use MAPLE for many of my rather limited needs. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:48 | answer | added | Aras Ergus | timeline score: 43 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:38 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 80 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:21 | comment | added | Upasana Mittal | Python, R, Julia | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:20 | comment | added | Tommi | Is the mathematics in question e.g. PDE or category theory? The answers might be different. | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:17 | answer | added | Wlod AA | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:10 | answer | added | Moritz Firsching | timeline score: 94 | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:06 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Related: What programming languages do mathematicians use? | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 21, 2018 at 8:00 | history | asked | Allawonder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |