I had today a nice seminar of Systems’ Theory. This subject is described by our student-ancestors as “a unique experience” (and that’s it, nothing more).

This subject has been known for years to as the killing subject of our faculty - the last killing subject, the last subject stopping you from starting a lean life researching only computer science.

To put is short, this subject is about Mathematics. Mathematics all the way. We’ve done tons of Mathematics, more or less important - this seems to gather everything and amplify it a few times. It really looks like a unique experience. It’s goes through your body from head to toes, activating tons of pointers to names like Laplace, Fourier, Dirac etc. This combines Analysis with matrix computations. It is the dream of any mathematician.

Ok, now.. we shouldn’t get desperate about it. We’re far from loving this subject. Analyzing the facs in an objective manner, we notice the following:

  • tons of Maths and we were happy that were finally over (last year) - everything we do gives us a very weird feeling - each Mathematics we learn didn’t seem to depend on something else; it was only needed by itself; nobody else required it - as older students tell us, same thing applies for Systems’ Theory
  • Theory - now, this is a recent shock for me - I realized today that this is theory; in a very weird way, this didn’t occur to me until now; this makes me remember about how students ask for more practical stuff to learn during University.

Subjects depending on themselves are not helping the development of the computer science student - we need a clear connection between each subject we learn and its practical implementation in Computer Science.