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I am going to reveal a bit of ignorance here. I code simply because I am horrid at math and since my work only entails business math I rarely have to even searc
by Shivetya 12y ago
I am going to reveal a bit of ignorance here. I code simply because I am horrid at math and since my work only entails business math I rarely have to even search for good examples. Balancing books, invoicing, etc, doesn't seem to stretch my math skills.
So which areas are still math intensive outside of engineering related work?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoAll the exciting ones.
- dkarapetyan 12y agoMost people have a wrong conception of what math means. Math encompasses large parts of pretty much any engineering discipline including programming. At the end of the day the foundations of programming are boolean logic, turing machines, lambda calculus, etc. Those are all technically math so when you say you're horrid at math and that's why you code that doesn't really make any sense. More generally, using any kind of analytical approach to solve problems is math.
- dllthomas 12y agoIs professor of mathematics "engineering related"? If not, it's a trivial example :-P More generally, there are a number of fields that rely on statistics and modelling of various sophistication. Parts of finance, insurance, polling...