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I have a background in some computer related mathematics, not once in my entire life has anything but the most trivial of it (basic logic equivalences) been of
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
I have a background in some computer related mathematics, not once in my entire life has anything but the most trivial of it (basic logic equivalences) been of any use. That's deeply sad.
- irishspring 6y agoJust for perspective, math (and some compsci) students (and practitioners) would consider everything in the linked book to be "trivial math". That's because this book is a compilation of surface level sampling from various branches of math. Mathematicians' version of your lamentation would probably look something like "I studied all the ins and outs of measure theory/functional analysis and category theory/algebraic geometry for four years and all I do today is teach engineering students calculus and freshman math majors - elementary real analysis. That's deeply sad". :)
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoA fair lament, surely. Teaching stuff that has no immediate use displaces stuff that may be. It's not that simple because I think learning maths teaches you a broader, more rigorous way of thinking, but still, maybe maths education needs to look at itself hard.