“Too Much Calculus” by Gilbert Strang, who taught me linear algebra in the late Victorian era and is still at it. Linear algebra is what we use for everything in the real world. Calculus is elegant, but you’ll never actually have to solve an integral. http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/essay.pdf …
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Replying to @Meaningness
I can agree that most computational tasks end up reduced to linear algebra, and comp lin alg is super important and underapreciated - but "you’ll never actually have to solve an integral"? That seems too much, you can't do serious probability without analysis.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Well, not much. My point is just that you can't develop new mathematical methods (that will probably computationaly reduce to linear algebra in the end) without a solid grasp of analysis.
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Replying to @brewingsense
Oh, sure. If you are going to be a mathematician, you need to learn tons of everything, definitely including analysis. But hardly anyone is a mathematician. Math courses are mainly taken by future scientists and engineers.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I guess we don't have a real disagreement, I just reacted to what I felt was too much of a dismissal of analysis.
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Yes—I was trolling, somewhat :)
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