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To be honest, there’s approximately zero reasons to teach major-grade math to just about anyone but math majors. None of the applied math disciplines need go th
by Sharlin 5mo ago
To be honest, there’s approximately zero reasons to teach major-grade math to just about anyone but math majors. None of the applied math disciplines need go that deep, and what they do need depends on the field (physics is all about analysis, CS is about algebra and discrete math, and so on).
- torben-friis 5mo agoIn terms of material learned maybe, in terms of shaping logical thinking and tackling hard problems there is a huge benefit.
- lokar 5mo agoMy CS program required one year of upper division math. But you could take anything (I took set theory and meta-logic from the philosophy department, it was actually pretty hard!). They did not care about the specific math skills, they wanted us to have a level of mathematical formalism and reasoning, which was in fact important for the CS classes.
- ChickeNES 5mo agoMine required very specific courses, including Discrete Math, which I scraped by in. Almost 15 years later and I have never needed any of the upper level math I was forced to take and wish I could have just taken more applied CS classes instead.
- lokar 5mo agoWe had to take calc, linear algebra, Boolean algebra and combinatorics the 1st two years