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by jlarcombe 212 days ago
the Oxford joint schools degree was called "Mathematics and Computation" for many, many years
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I got the impression that they thought computer science was a fad that was going to go away soon.
Yes I remember your comment to that effect on the last thread that touched on this topic! From memory I think I was ten years after you and either I had different expectations or the course had changed radically because I had a much more positive experience.
These days you can have math and real computation; proving theorems through reducing terms in Lean