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Calculus is a requirement for all undergrad science degrees in most places, and a biologist has about as much use for integral calculus as a fish does with a bi
by BrainInAJar 12y ago
Calculus is a requirement for all undergrad science degrees in most places, and a biologist has about as much use for integral calculus as a fish does with a bicycle. They're much better served by statistics, which is not, a majority of the time, an undegrad requirement for all majors.
- gohrt 12y agoA really good way to be awful at Statistics is to not understand integral calculus.
- BrainInAJar 12y agoA really good way to be awful at calculus is to not understand real analysis but you have to draw a line at some point. (heh)
- epistasis 12y agoThere are large areas biology that depend crucially on calculus and other math. Genetics as a field is extremely quantitative. Ecology and evolution also rely heavily on mathematical models. You can get by in some parts of molecular biology and field biology without a great understanding of calculus, but even in those subfields its important to have an undergraduate-level understanding of genetics, ecology, and evolution.