Algorithms and Mathematics, are they really the same?

In short, I don't think so. It's like saying Music is all about Piano, not the other way around. Doesn't make sense right!

Matte is meant to be much more than mere mechanical drudgery, it's an art of insights which can only be experienced after a certain study of a few rigorous principles. It's a dream, a collage of axioms; it's not black and white, it's mesmerizingly colourful. Algorithms are the purpose of solving a particular problem so that every time we are to use this path we are sure to reach the destination and have the right answer in the end. 

Algorithm's, I think are something which are to be taught to computers so that we can explore new aspects of Matte and we learn to apply it to the real world in an inspired way. There is a certain magic, within the abstractness and thus the generality of Matte. I mean, the elusive (x) can be anything - from the mass of a Galaxy to the penny you forgot at the shop;P

At the very basic level, Algorithms are the reason why Computers can do what they do; and do it fast. I believe that as we progress we would only need to remember a couple of commands here and there, a few syntaxes and just experiment with all the various ideas that we come up with. On the whole we don't really need to concern ourselves with the way some problem is solved but knowing it wouldn't hurt. That's why the Open Source is such a rage.

Think of it in terms of creating music through Piano, it's good if you know how it all works on the inside but you don't really need that knowledge to create music. I believe, that we should focus upon playing music and for the most part leave the fine-tuning of the Piano, in the capable hands of the experts.

It's not really meant to be a drudgery, life is too short to be held up by mindless, repetitive tasks. We have computers for all that kind of work, What we need to do is only to be creative with problems and how to formalise it in a way that we can use a computer to solve it in an instant. The times, when we really needed to sit down and just do it. I don't think that we need to slog our way through textbooks the way we have been doing it so far, 'cos Matte has become so vast that it's impossible to even wet our feet in a reasonable time. The last couple of centuries have seen an unprecedented advances in Matte. 

I think a lot of the curriculum is still based upon the most fundamental parts, I don't have anything against it. But the thing is, as we pursue our studies in Matte we are compelled to limit ourselves as per a particular field. That makes no sense to me !! I truly believe that there are always, always multiple ways of solving a problem and if we limit ourselves to a particular line of thought or inquiry it prohibits us from exploring and perhaps getting ideas from other branches of Matte. Down with this mindless Drudgery, I say;P

Now that we have so many awesome resources on the Internet and such advanced computers we can easily focus more upon the actual thinking part of Matte. For some reason this reminds me of a quote, " Anything that we can teach a computer is science, rest is Art ", inspired by Donald E. Knuth, who is considered is the father of Algorithm analysis. So, we need to be artists rather than just calculators ourselves. 

With regard to Data Artist, I imagine beautiful images whose smallest portion has a meaning of it's own. As in, this circles represents the total GDP of some such country but rather than understanding one abstract concept based upon another abstract concept we can understand it as an image, perhaps as a cartoon character even! We are visual beings and be it good or bad, we rely very much so on our basic instincts and senses still, why not use this as well? Instead of building castles upon castles in the air and in imagination, why not have a look at it;)

P.S. I forgot to mention that I use the word Matte, which is a Swedish diminutive of the Mathematics. I don't really like using the latter, it's too loaded;)