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Posted by Karyudo on 11/11/06 05:29
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:18:08 GMT, Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> wrote:
>Karyudo <karyudo_usenet@yahoo.com.remove.me> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:49:40 GMT, "ThePunisher"
>> <thepunisher@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Karyudo" <karyudo_usenet@yahoo.com.remove.me> wrote in message
>>>news:h038l25f82mhivmvn58hh89lksaqv2hnv6@4ax.com
>>>> > > Science...the thing that brought us computers,
>>>> > > airplanes and televisions.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, science brought us semiconductors, manometers, and cathode
>>>> rays. Yawn.
>>>>
>>>> It's *engineering* that brought us computers, airplanes, and
>>>> televisions.
>>>
>>>That would be the science of engineering then.
>>
>> Engineering is *applied* science. It requires science -- but science
>> by itself (i.e. without an application) is pretty boring sometimes.
>
>What was Claude Shannon, a scientist or engineer? He had an MS in both
>electrical engineering and mathematics.
Looks like he took a dry topic in mathematics (in my opinion, the
whole subject's dry... but Boolean logic's less dry than, say, vector
calculus) and applied it to a more interesting problem. Ergo, an
engineer with a background in mathematics!
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