Booch: Theoretical side of what kind of science, because you mentioned math and physics.
Torvalds: I did most math and computer science. But I mean, the computer science was computer
science, it was not programming. So most of the courses at the university would be things like complexity
analysis, which things like that where you don't really even necessarily do a lot of programming, if any at
all, but you discuss the problems, [at] more of an algorithmic level. I don't know how much immediate
practical use that ever really had, but the mindset of thinking about the problem at a higher level, as I'm
convinced, is pretty useful. Since I had the low level, that part the university didn't really help with or try to
teach at all.
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