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math is not just about calculations and numbers that most people interact with during their education and seems to dislike or find hard. the part that would be
by gryn 5y ago
math is not just about calculations and numbers that most people interact with during their education and seems to dislike or find hard.
the part that would be useful in programming is a little bit of logical reasoning, the symbolic reasoning and modeling of problems through abstraction.
coincidentally these are also the part of math that get thought and used in philosophy so I'm guessing that your colleague is somewhat familiar with them since their most probably are required core courses in getting a philosophy degree.
- analog31 5y agoI was exposed to this aspect of math through proofs, which are sadly given short shrift in K-12 math today. The schools in my hometown used a math curriculum that actually introduced basic set theory in first grade, and eased us into proofs. High school geometry was all about proofs. First of all, it was a good education. Second, proofs were what made math come alive for me. I have a lot of opinions about K-12 math education. ;-)