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Count, me, a baby boomer, as one who has always had problems with higher math. Oh, and did I say that I was the product of 'new math' taught during the early sixties? For nearly three years I got the 'new math' shoved down my throat and never learned it. That little experiment in education cost me a whole lot of time and money.
Can I use math? Yes, but without the proper foundations it came harder and harder the further I went into mathematics. Real world you have reference books easily accessible and if you know what information you need you then look it up. In the world of academics you memorize, memorize, and memorize. Does that produce mathematicians? Nope, that produces parrots who squawk back the correct answer when asked the right question. Fineman (SP) discovered that when he went to Brazil and saw their colleges.
All in all this was a good read.
Mar 18, 2006, 2:12:00 PM
Posted to Math For Programmers