Solving integrals (beyond simple cases) has never been all that useful, simply because most integrals don't even have a solution. You do it in calculus to get a

Solving integrals (beyond simple cases) has never been all that useful, simply because most integrals don't even have a solution. You do it in calculus to get a feeling for the subject. If you want to calculate a numerical solution to a novel analytic problem you absolutely need a good understanding of analysis. Being able to plug things into Matlab is only useful if Matlab implements a good solver for that problem. >It is useful to understand what happens exactly but we no longer need 3-4 years of calculus depths. Indeed. We need 5+ years of analysis now.