On: Ask HN: Is a Ph.D. in CS worth it?

[vitaIiy]

Actually, I just checked and almost every CS field rests on substantial understanding of math, you can safely ignore the parent post.

[scott_s → vitaIiy]

I'm going to defend my Ph.D. in December. I agree with the parent post. Check my profile for my academic page, which has my publications. I do research related to systems for high performance computing. Not much math. Mathematical reasoning and understanding is needed, but the research is not math.

I'm going to steal from myself and just repeat this: I consider computer science to be everything concerned with computation in both the abstract and in implementation. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968013 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1131606

[jrockway → vitaIiy]

Really? I can link you to about a million CS papers that do not mention formal math. And incidentally, this work is easy to apply directly to my day-to-day work as a practicing programmer.

(Some would say that means it's not academic enough... but you get the "Dr." title, so...)

[einarvollset → vitaIiy]

Bullshit.