Calculators for Math Majors?

drbott
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:02:28 +0000

korinfox - Yes, that’s the romantic notion of how a mathematician works. But, numerical analysis is becoming more and more popular, and computer science is also becoming much more prevalent, even in absolutely theoretical math. It is probably even be true - though there’s no data that I can think of, on the subject - that it’s the minority of mathematicians who work purely on paper.

(And, by the way, I have two calculators - Mathematica and Matlab.)