The author has a point on the benefit of transference, but he's too extreme in his conclusions. Trigonometry is useful in so many ways. It's even useful for pr

The author has a point on the benefit of transference, but he's too extreme in his conclusions. Trigonometry is useful in so many ways. It's even useful for projects around the house, let alone for a lot of careers. Last I checked it comes after 8th grade. On the other end of the spectrum he concedes Harvard philosophy undergrads might want to read "The Road to Reality". Bullshit - No undergrad can understand all the math in this book and no one is proposing that they should. Reductio ad absurdum. And don't forget gaming. Lots of young people these days dream about a career at a game studio and there are a lot more options if you have good math. He mentions Sputnik but it's not the 1950's anymore. The number of careers that benefit from math will only continue to grow.