Why is there such a thing called Computer Science? Shouldn’t all computer stuff be called computer engineering?

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As i understand it, Science is basically making sense of nature and natural laws/phenomenons. Way is it called computer science even though humans literally invented the machine and (as a species) know everything there is to know about it?

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There are different kinds of science. What you described is the natural sciences – physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and such. There are also social sciences – archeology, economics, linguistics and such, and formal sciences, namely mathematics.

Computer science is a branch of math. It involves analyzing computer programs from a mathematical perspective, like algorithms, computation and information theory.

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