Re: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section
Thomas Walter <t.walter@nefkom.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:20:25PM +0200, Thomas Walter wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> > In general, my understanding of "Science" is in the sense of research
>> > and not education.
>> > Thus an example breakdown within Sience could be like
>> > Mathematics
>> > Physics
>> > Bio
>> > Chemistry
>> > Astronomics
>> > Geology
>>
>> Could you provide packages list to flesh these sections ?
>>
>
> Yes,
>
> either see at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists
>
> or perhaps at a very old page about SAL
> http://sal.jyu.fi/sal1.shtml
Many of these don't seem to be in Debian. We'd need a list of packages
*in*Debian* to conclude that it makes sense to split the Science section
so much.
Anyway, I don't think that it's a good idea to put Mathematics into
Science. In agreement with the usual english usage, "Science" is in
fact "natural science". However, mathematics is a general foundation
for many other types of research. It's central to social science
(sociology, psychology, economics) and also important in fields related
to philology, e.g. linguistics.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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