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> Why aren't CS people coming in and showing everyone how it should be done?

Because CS students don't learn differential equations or real and functional analysis.

Have a B.S. in CS and I learned both differential equations and real analysis.

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What school did you go to? What school would issue a BSc in computing science without analysis and differential equations?

I did undergrad at UMass Amherst, where computer-science students take math up to multivariable calculus 1 and linear algebra. I then did my MSc at the Technion, where some amount of differential equations and vector calculus is normal for undergrads, but even there, requiring multiple semesters of analysis to grant a degree in computing, where most of the maths are discrete, is considered overkill.

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