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 David Tolpin scripsit: > Understanding the need of mathematics as a need of tool is utilitary. > A programmer needs mathematics because the brain must be trained through > learning it, including calculus, topology, sets theory, algebra and other > topics. > > Too many programmers think that they don't need linear algebra because > they are not going to compute eigenvalues. It is like thinking that one > does not need to be taught classical literature or poetry because > he/she is not going to become a writer. It's like thinking that you don't need to read Virgil in Latin, or Homer in Greek, or Tagore in Bengali, because you aren't going to be a poet. It's like thinking you can afford not to know how to lay bricks because you aren't going to be a mason. It's like thinking you don't need to learn how to turn a breech calf because you aren't going to be a farmer. Every kind of knowledge is at the center of knowledge. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Original line from _The Warrior's Apprentice_ by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one." English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon." 
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