I heard the idea that math == computer science and that it is impossible to grok one but not the other.
IMO that's bullshit. I started university majoring in math with CS as secondary, but ended up switching as I was struggling to pass in math while getting straing As in CS.
Funny thing is, I still had to take some "pure" math lectures and during an oral test for one of them the professor asked which part of the lecture (group theory) I found most interesting. I told him it was the algorithm for ennumerating co-sets, since as CS major, algorithms were bread and butter to me. He laughed and said that this was the part most math majors had problems with...
IMO that's bullshit. I started university majoring in math with CS as secondary, but ended up switching as I was struggling to pass in math while getting straing As in CS.
Funny thing is, I still had to take some "pure" math lectures and during an oral test for one of them the professor asked which part of the lecture (group theory) I found most interesting. I told him it was the algorithm for ennumerating co-sets, since as CS major, algorithms were bread and butter to me. He laughed and said that this was the part most math majors had problems with...