“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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Gamblers. Programmers. Entire banking and finance industry. Insurance industry.
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All those depend on applied probability theory, but I’d guess less than one person in a thousand who works in them knows serious probability theory (requiring calculus).
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