<p>Not to say that “real math” is any harder or more worthwhile than what engineers would call math, let me clarify.</p>
<p>But engineers can’t have their cake and eat it too. They don’t really do math. They do calculations. I’m not saying they should do math, or that they are at fault for not doing; just that they don’t, and CS majors do (not all the time, and not as much as actual math majors, but they do)</p>
<p>“Wait, so in CS what kind of math do you use as opposed to EE/CE? I’ve already come to conclude, from the posts about CS, that CS is NOT a programming nor a software engineering track.”
- There may be some overlap, sure, but when I’m talking about math in CS I’m talking about things like… algorithmic analysis, complexity theory, formal language theory, data structures, etc. and the pure math that goes along with it - abstract algebra and number theory, for example.</p>
<p>I would suggest that those of you who want to really understand the difference go check out the following wikipedia articles:</p>
<p>[Applied</a> mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_mathematics]Applied”>Applied mathematics - Wikipedia)
[Pure</a> mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_mathematics]Pure”>Pure mathematics - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>The lengths are pretty reasonable and there are good insights, worded much better than I have done so far.</p>