Agreed, though mathematics and programming as we understand them are both ways for humans to express logic. As much as mathematicians want to believe it, math is not the same as logic. The former serves to express logic to other humans while the latter serves to express logic to both other humans and computers. It's not like in the business world; mathematics doesn't get to have a monopoly over logic just because it came first.
Math and computer science just happen to be two fields which concern themselves with different aspects of logic. Math being slow-moving and focused on solving universal problems and computer science being fast-moving and focused on solving concrete problems.
Once in a while, advancements like cryptography and LLMs show us that focusing on solving concrete problems can also expand our knowledge and capabilities in a radical (and useful) way.
I resent articles which try to present one as more important than the other. What does that even mean? Appeal to academic authority? Utility value? Difficulty? Degree of abstraction? They're both just languages which solve problems in different ways and which have different target audiences and have different scalability constraints.
Math and computer science just happen to be two fields which concern themselves with different aspects of logic. Math being slow-moving and focused on solving universal problems and computer science being fast-moving and focused on solving concrete problems.
Once in a while, advancements like cryptography and LLMs show us that focusing on solving concrete problems can also expand our knowledge and capabilities in a radical (and useful) way.
I resent articles which try to present one as more important than the other. What does that even mean? Appeal to academic authority? Utility value? Difficulty? Degree of abstraction? They're both just languages which solve problems in different ways and which have different target audiences and have different scalability constraints.