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Very similar experience for a lot of math programs in France. For about a year we did a lot of repetitive and uninteresting stuff (integration by parts, compute
by gip 5y ago
Very similar experience for a lot of math programs in France. For about a year we did a lot of repetitive and uninteresting stuff (integration by parts, compute Taylor series on the whiteboard, ...).
The only concept from that time I used in my day job is the binomial coefficients. Yet I don't regret taking the class, in some inexplicable way I feel it has made be better (at what I have no idea).
- commandlinefan 5y ago> some inexplicable way I feel it has made be better The only thing I really "learned" from studying calculus that I actually apply to the real-world is the ability to slow down and take each part individually. When I first took calculus, I tried to rush through the problems and inevitably dropped something important. It wasn't until I started forcing myself to write down each step (even if I thought I could do it in my head) that I started actually getting the right answers, and knowing that I actually had.