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There's no doubt that there's a lot of overlap between mathematics and computer science. Mathematics gave birth to computer science, after all.

But what is under debate is the comment that "CS is really a mathematics major". An undergraduate computer science degree program is no more a mathematics program than an electrical engineering, physics, or statistics or data science one.

But yes, there's no question that mathematics is highly applicable.



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