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12 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 09:23PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 27 April 2009 10:43:07AM *  1 point [-]

Maths and physics deserve finer classification: specific areas of interest might include

  • Probability and statistics
  • QM
  • Complexity theory
  • not sure what the word is for the field that would cover Godel, Turing, Kolmogorov, Chaitin etc
Comment author: timtyler 27 April 2009 06:47:41PM 1 point [-]

Kolmogorov and Chaitin is probably "algorithmic information theory".

Comment author: Emile 27 April 2009 12:12:22PM 1 point [-]

Theoretical Computer science?

I agree that it would be worth splitting out probability and statistics ... as for the rest, I'm not sure, it might be getting too specific. QM is interesting for Yvain's question about MWI.