@AlgoCompSynth @mcc That kind of dichotomy stumps me. I was taught mathematics from an engineering perspective. My brainy mathematics oriented daughter thinks of mathematics in terms of sets of numbers, theorems, and proofs. Engineering equations bore her. I wish I'd had her math perspective in my youth. But, it may have been beyond my grasp.
@Cirdan @mcc My degrees are in math but I mostly earned a living in operating systems and scientific applications programming.