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by sfriedr 1482 days ago
That's not quite true, as there are overlaps. To name just one big topic: Pseudorandom number generators. Here you have a (number) theory, including things like finite fields, to generate and understand deterministic numeric sequences, but also a lot of statistical methods tonassess whether these "look" random. Knuth has an entire chspter on these.