[Blindmath] Colllege calculus Questions

[Birkir Rúnar Gunnarsson]

If you are truly interested in math-related issues I will post back to
this list with a few thoughts, if you are using the questions for
pseudo political preaching, I would wish you to take it elsewhere.
I find math difficult and applicable because it teaches abstract
thinking, perhapds better than any other subject. Being a programmer
is to learn to solve problems in a certain way and approach the task
from a computer perspective. Therefore you may not use math directly
in many of your jobs (I used it little in my 4 years of programming
work) but what you learn from the math courses and the concept and
strategies are essential for many types of programming.
So, please tune down the attitude or post those thoughts in a
different avenue, if you are, indeed, ready to talk math I will post
back with a few more thoughts.
cheers
-B

On 6/27/10, Roopakshi Pathania <r_akshi_tgk at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> One area where serious Math like integration and differentiation and
> sometimes even Physics is needed is Gaming.
> I suppose even blind programmers could work on certain aspects of games, but
> can't say if they do in the real world.
> Of course good audio games would also require Math.
>
> Continuing with Shane's example, automating platforms that deal with data
> should in my understanding require calculus
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> And then there is programming mathematical, financial, and physics models.
> If the model deals with calculus in some way, I suppose the programmer
> should know about it.
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>> A typical calculus problem in the course I took anyway
>> might be 10 or so steps.
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> When you move on to integration and Differential Equations, problems can
> become longer.
> Trig identities and set theory proofs can also be longer, but that is not
> Calculus.
> Or just may be I'm imagining things.
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