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False. Decisions like this can be made at a higher level than the department. The mandatory courses in my programme were applied univariate calculus and an intr
by kjandersen 10y ago
False. Decisions like this can be made at a higher level than the department. The mandatory courses in my programme were applied univariate calculus and an introduction to statistical modelling (with examples drawn from biology), imposed by the faculty of science on all science majors - all the while the CS professors were screaming for an introduction to logic and discrete maths to be added to the curriculum.
- kazinator 10y agoWell, yes; you have to look at the set difference between the CS math courses, and the common ones that all science students have to take. That said, nobody in a STEM field should go without knowing at least univariate calculus. Without calculus, you can have only a poor intuition for situation involving rates of change, or little deltas being applied in one place resulting in other little deltas elsewhere. It's also necessary for stats, because you're dealing with oh, integrals such as the area under sections of a probability density function. Part of computer science is numerical analysis, too. Once upon a time, numerical analysis constituted the bulk of "computer science". CS undergrads arguably need some exposure to numerical analysis, and in such a course, the knowledge from other math courses provides support.