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I learned all of that while I got my CompSci major. Had I filled out some form I would have had a math minor upon graduation. But I could hardly tell you what a
by strictnein 10y ago
I learned all of that while I got my CompSci major. Had I filled out some form I would have had a math minor upon graduation. But I could hardly tell you what any of that meant 15 years later, because it never comes up in anything I do.
- jly 10y agoSame thing for me. I took an extensive array of mathematics and physics courses while pursing an engineering degree. More than 10 years as a practicing software engineer and I remember very little of it today since most never comes up in my daily use. Back at graduation, I could have discussed a lot more maths intelligently than I can today.
- newbear 10y agoPhew. I thought I was the only one that got a degree only to not remember it a few years later. I find that when I relearn the topics it does come a lot easier. The memory might be hard to retrieve but it's in there somewhere ...
- smueller1234 10y agoI look after a part of product development in a large ecommerce company. I have at least one valid use case for university level math per week. And I hate myself for having let my math skills slide in the 6 years since I left physics. That's because I regularly run into problems that I know I could solve properly some years ago and struggle to formalise now.