Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

On Jun 25, 2:40=A0am, rAgAv <ragav.pa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a highschool graduate and I'm going to major in Mathematics this
> Fall. I would like to have a foundation in programming so that it
> would be useful in my later career as a mathematician with interests
> in logic, numerical analysis, formal systems and that sort.
>
> I don't know enough technicalities to seek the right sort of
> programming that I should learn now. I wish to hear advice on what
> sort of programming skills a pure mathematician would find useful.
>
> Regards.
>
> PS - At the moment, I know only the basics of C++.

Beats me.  What would a "pure mathematician" do with computer
programming?  As an EE grad student, my thesis adviser was from the
math department and taught a graduate class on numerical analysis.  He
authored papers mostly on finite element analysis of fluid flow.  I
always thought of him as an applied mathematician.  The other math
professors that I knew only used a computer for word processing.

If you were an "applied mathematician," I would recommend Fortran and
Algol only because there are many legacy programs written in these
languages.  In particular, the Collected Algorithms from ACM Vol I to
III are mostly in Algol and Fortran.