“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
Spotify uses a lot of linear algebra to determine the Discover Weekly playlist recommendations that everyone seems to love.
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Replying to @then_there_was
Yup. Also the foundation of the Google search algorithm, most machine learning methods, most mechanical engineering software, …
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Replying to @Meaningness @then_there_was
Hmm, computing gradients needs differential calculus though, no? (Though auto-diff makes things pretty easy nowadays)
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Replying to @browserdotsys @then_there_was
In practice, that is done numerically, not as a symbolic derivative.
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yeah, but the things you do with it often require calculus intuition, right? Numerical integration of ODEs, root finding? sorry, calculus is so pretty that I'm easily trolled by this :)
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Didn’t mean to troll (unusable for me); I guess I was just unclear. The concepts are imperative and when I’m World Dictator will be forced on everyone continuously from age 8.
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There’s diminishing returns to using calculus and most people would be better off learning algebra because you can apply it in more contexts. Doesn’t mean calculus isn’t useful. It’s just not that useful for most people in most contexts.
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We are in strong agreement :)
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