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tokenadult · 2009-07-31 · Original thread
Just a day ago I asked how HN participants learned biology

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731362

in their higher education. I would think that with judicious course selection and choosing fitting internships it would be possible for a CS major to learn quite a lot of biology, or the other way around, but perhaps I am mistaken. A book Mathematics Unlimited--2001 and Beyond

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Unlimited-Bj%C3%B6rn-Engqu...

included an article by a European author suggesting that all math majors should study a lot more science than they did as of a decade ago, and all science majors (in all sciences) ought to study a lot more math. That makes sense to me.

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