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Calculus

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-25 2:54

I'm a first year CS student at a university and I'm finally finishing up Calculus, thankfully after this week I'll be done with it for good. I plan on getting a bachelor's degree, perhaps considering going on to the master's but I haven't decided yet. However, my question is as follows: will I really even apply any of this calculus concepts in programming? Things such as integrals and derivatives, limits, etc. If so, where would these be applied?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-25 6:35

The history of science is a history of great individual thinkers, of Archimedes and Leonardo and Galileo and Kepler and Newton and Einstein. It is not a history of committees and peer groups. Galileo did not succeed by a vote. Newton did nothing with the authority of a majority. Just the reverse. All these great people did what they did against the majorities of their times. You only have to study their lives to see that, in science and other hierarchies, the majority is always wrong.

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