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Mathematics is the study of quantity and structure. Reasoning about how to mutate some state, defined as a set of values, according to some domain-specific logic, constrained by the execution environment and invariants, is most assuredly mathematics.


Indeed. Whether the likes of Sarah Mei agree or not, the Curry-Howard correspondence holds regardless: producing a computer program that meets some specification is theorem proving at a fundamental level...




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