ABSTRACT
There are also safer uses which are not practical in the narrow sense. For example, the very concept of computers lends a new dimension to discussions on philosophical problems such as mind and body, the nature of consciousness. In the area of mathematics, we can also list a few rather noncontroversial examples. Computers have been used as heuristic aids to deal with nonlinear problems. The complex data are not only useful in themselves but may suggest solutions to abstract mathematical problems in more general cases. There has also been work to prove general theorems in number theory by reducing them to some special numerical cases manageable on large computers. In numerical analysis, it is desirable to mechan ize the sequencing of connecting steps between different procedures in order to take advantage of the automatic aspect of computers.
