Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section
> Unconvinced. Theoretical chemistry, as an example, is largely
> mathematics. But not only in the sense below engineering/physics. To
> develop novel theoretical chemistry, new mathematics has to be
> invented. The same for physics/mathematics: remember that Newton had
> to invent (I know that in some quarters the invention is attributed to
> another scientists, but the latter was a professional physicist too)
> infinitesimal calculation.
In my mathematics research, I am currently working on problems in
computational geometry and topology. The work I am doing is largely
algorithmics. Moreover, to obtain new topological results, new data
structures had to be invented.
This does not mean that algorithmics is a branch of topology. Nor does
it mean that data structures is a branch of topology. And it would
certainly be very strange for a computer scientist to find all their
material on algorithms and data structures filed under "Geometry and
Topology".
Ben.
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