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That rant is a bit ridiculous to post here - the foundations of computer science is largely the result of mathematicians who weren't particularly interested in physics.


Well for one Turing was certainly somewhat interested in physics. From his WikiP page:

In 1928, aged 16, Turing encountered Albert Einstein's work; not only did he grasp it, but it is possible that he managed to deduce Einstein's questioning of Newton's laws of motion from a text in which this was never made explicit.

Then there was von Neumann and several others. If not interested then at least well educated in physics.


The foundations of computer science are trivial from the mathematics standpoint. I would not call them "results of mathematicians".




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