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I studied Engineering like you. I graduated six years ago and the rust has definitely set in for me. At my university our Math courses were split into three str

I studied Engineering like you. I graduated six years ago and the rust has definitely set in for me. At my university our Math courses were split into three streams, Statistics, Calculus and Linear Algebra. coincidently I had a Russian Lecturer as well. It was after those core subjects where I fell in love - Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics was the 'aha' moment for me. It made all that core stuff make sense when I finally got a sense of the applications. Bernoulli, Euler, Fermi, Dirac - The shoulders of giants...

Jugurtha 11y ago
Yeah. Whenever I had trouble with a topic, it was because my core knowledge was weak and rusty. I was in Instrumentation and Control. The stuff in Control Theory was all Pontryagin, Lyapunov, Bellman, Evans, etc. We were fortunate enough to have a very good Professor who taught a course that is state of the art (continuous control in 3rd year, and discrete control systems in 4th year. Optimal control and RST controllers). For applying the stuff, it's sort of easy. But I know that I'll never appreciate the beauty of it until I understand the concept of stability from a "Calculus" stand point and how it relates to systems. Anyhow, I'm also acquiring Russian. Many Russian books have been translated but a lot have not.