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forwardslash  ·  4684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How much math do we really need?
Calculus may not be essential to one's life, but I think basic logic and proofs are. If you can't see that just because p implies q, q doesn't necessarily imply p, it's going to affect you more than if you don't know what the integral of e^x is.




NotPhil  ·  4684 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes, but we don't teach logic, or any other form of reasoning, and you can't really infer much of it from the math classes being taught.