[yati]

Much of theoretical computer science is math, like much of modern theoretical physics is also math. “Computational science” brings up images of computational complexity theory, computability, information theory, distributed consensus, type theory etc.

So maybe not a marketing ploy.

[derstander]

> Much of theoretical computer science is math, like much of modern theoretical physics is also math.

Math is not science - regardless of whether it’s masquerading as computer science or certain branches of theoretical physics.

This makes me sound down on mathematics which I’m certainly not. It’s both useful and can be profoundly beautiful. And it can be an integral tool in science — or studied on its own merits. But it’s not science.

[SantalBlush]

>Much of theoretical computer science is math

Does that make it a science? I think nobody in this thread is using the same definition of science.