Calculus

[Martin Czech]

:::MATHS IS A NESSESARY EVIL!!

Andy, I wouldn't say so.  Without that math we engineers would be simply
f*ck*d.  It is bad teachers/teaching that makes us suffer.

We learn to do formal operations in order to pass the exams, but no one
talks about the interpretation.

There are areas of mathematics that are pretty much isolated, i.e. pure
math. A little world of it's own, some axioms, some proofs, some theorems,
a set of legal operations.  Very nice.

But until now not very usefull for us.  The usefull areas have allmost
all not come from mathematics, but from physics or engineering. Back
in the old times there were no pure physics or mathematics, but "philosophia
naturalis".  So things have a meaning beyond the formal system of -say- calculus.
A meta mathematical interpretation of the symbols, functions and operators.

This is too often simply dropped, because of time or whatever.
I fuSo things have a meaning beyond the formal system of -say- calculus.
A meta mathematical interpretation of the symbols, functions and operators.

This is too often simply dropped, because of time or whatever.
I found the math lectures by mathematicians allways to be nonsense
for us engineers.

I'd be better if engineers would teach math to engineers.

m.c.