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Topic	What's an actual reason to learn math when wolfram alpha exists?
Xelltrix 04/10/17 11:23:12 AM #26:	Howl posted... That's exactly the point I'm making. It's not just that Wolfram is fine for me, but it's completely fine for like the 96+% of jobs in the US that will never require anything even close to anything of a higher level of mathematical knowledge than what Wolfram can easily just do for you. Learn higher math and abstract math is more about getting your mind thinking in that manner and identifying the problem and what you actually need to do to solve it. At least, it's like that for programming. In real life, most problems don't present themselves at an equation that needs to be solved so you need to know what you actually need to solve before you can actually apply a formula. With math, it can get a lot more abstract so, for the overwhelming majority of people, they don't need to know it but that's no different than pretty much any field and to say that there's no actual reason to learn it is dumb. It's not necessary for most people, but most people don't go into those higher level math classes in the first place. --- Reading this post may induce one or more of the following: Nausea / Butt-Hurt / Lulz / UM? Syndrome / Angst / Diarrhea <cite>Xelltrix posted [p:876910026] in What's an ... [t:75220407]...</cite> <quote><cite>Howl posted...</cite> <quote> That's exactly the point I'm making. It's not just that Wolfram is fine for me, but it's completely fine for like the 96+% of jobs in the US that will never require anything even close to anything of a higher level of mathematical knowledge than what Wolfram can easily just do for you.</quote> Learn higher math and abstract math is more about getting your mind thinking in that manner and identifying the problem and what you actually need to do to solve it. At least, it's like that for programming. In real life, most problems don't present themselves at an equation that needs to be solved so you need to know what you actually need to solve before you can actually apply a formula. With math, it can get a lot more abstract so, for the overwhelming majority of people, they don't need to know it but that's no different than pretty much any field and to say that there's no actual reason to learn it is dumb. It's not necessary for most people, but most people don't go into those higher level math classes in the first place. --- Reading this post may induce one or more of the following: Nausea / Butt-Hurt / Lulz / UM? Syndrome / Angst / Diarrhea</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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