When’s the last time you saw an engineer doing tensor calculus? And that said, whomever said Einstein wasn’t good at math has also never done tensor calculus.
People mean different things when they say maths. To most, maths means calculating things using numbers. Engineering absolutely has more of that than physics. But there’s so much more maths out there than the average person even knows about, like your example. Physics has more higher mathematics, and engineering has more calculating stuff using numbers.
whomever said Einstein wasn’t good at math
Got confused by the german grading system. Lower grades are better.
I mean, it’s definitely true.
Engineering has its share of math, it can get fairly complex (in the case of electrical engineering, it’s literally complex), but being engineering it’s often based in practical things. But, pure physics has weird-ass math invented just to deal with the messed up calculations required by quantum mechanics.
If you hate weird-ass math, you’ll hate pure physics as lot more than any engineering discipline.
Engineering has the kind of math that can be plugged into spreadsheets and CFD simulations. It’s the kind of math that might be really complicated, but you can get answers out of it, and those answers can be compared to reality. Physics has the “symbol manipulation” kind of math where you don’t even deal with numbers, other than the occasional 2 or 3 when when something is squared or cubed.
Weird thing about studying mathematics was that there was barely any mathematics in there.
Tbh engineering, least aero, is mostly spreadsheets But I gotta keep deriving crap in physics, you think you’ve derived it all but you haven’t they just keep making more physics or some shit (wolfram alpha is bae)
People often don’t understand that math is pretty much in all fields of STEM. For example students at my university start chemistry thinking they will be at most balancing chemical reactions or calculating concetrations, but then differential equations and linear algebra starts. During my first year about half of the students failed the introductory physics course.
I work in biology and the amount of people who work in the field because they hate maths is… considerable. As others have said, the field is almost entirely quantitative and statistics nowadays, so, lol
I have a family member who studies fish at a post doc level. He had to learn a bunch of calculus and statistical analysis just to be able to actually make use of the data they collect. Anyone who wants to design and publish research has to have a pretty good grasp of a lot of math.
Still don’t get why you need maths for computer science. Like programming originated in maths or something? Maybe they just use it to filter people out. Seems to work quite well then.
Are you… Serious? Because computers are math machines. That’s literally their purpose. If you’re programming anything lower level than a JS app then you need to understand what’s going on closer to the hardware. CS is a pretty general field and I appreciate the math classes that I’ve taken so far because I am planning to go into embedded systems and therefore will be actually using a lot of it.
Like choosing cocaine over meth because the high is “smoother”
I am not a massive fan of cocaine, and never have done meth, but I can see that making sense. Apparently meth come downs are brutal.
Hell the comedown on my Vyvanse was brutal and that was only 20mg oral. Awful anxiety until like 2 months in.
