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Beyond the algorithmization of the sciences
Thomas Easton promotes algorithms as a higher form of science in his paper Beyond the algorithmization of the sciences:
Algorithms have thus made biology as useful a science as physics, chemistry, and computer science. But are algorithms enough to move biology closer to the throne? Are they math?
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Five decades ago, most mathematicians would have said no. Then in the 1970s, they discovered the value of computers for “proving” theorems (…)
Myself, I haven’t had time to spend much time thinking about it, but it is quite clear that I value algorithms at least as highly as I value theorems.