I took a year of calculus in university, but I don't remember 95% of it.
Just what is calculus good for outside of engineering, CS, and physics?
--Waiting for a brilliant math major to shut me down with a well-written response.
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i hope its not too long2004-12-28 2:36
Im sorry but your "brilliant MATH Major" will not come. These days math majors (which would lead to becomming a math professor) comes from other countries and MOST US students dont elect to become math majors. To keep it real its just not a satisfying or a stable job nowadays to be a mathematics professor. A majority of kids hates math with a passion ever asking the cliche question of "what is this good for." So day in day out you see these kids take this class just to jump the hoop and like thet example of the opening thread, no one remembers it. Its usually a job for the foreign nations now to teach us math... isnt that weird? To be able to teach math without technically using proper english.
What math is supposed to do is help you think of a problem, with multiple ways of answering this problem and picking one. Once one method is picked remembering certian laws to consider and comming up with the correct answer. This in turn leads to real life situations in which multiple ideas come together with the help of certian parameters to fix a certain person's problem (in which the correct answer deals in accordance to a person's set morals). Oh and just so we can be good with numbers (2+3=5 and shit). Thread #5 stated the obvious. Hope that helped.
Oh and im a Chemistry major soon to branch out to business, philosophy and some language (spanish or latin... still up in the air). But whatever, most will probably get bored reading.