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Re:The Importance of Mathematics Courses in Computer Science... by BrainInAJar on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:00AM (#9311057)
Calculus is a requirement for all undergrad science degrees in most places, and a biologist has about as much use for integral calculus as a fish does with a bicycle. They're much better served by statistics, which is not, a majority of the time, an undegrad requirement for all majors.
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Re:The Importance of Mathematics Courses in Computer Science... by gohrt on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:39AM (#9311343)
A really good way to be awful at Statistics is to not understand integral calculus.
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Re:The Importance of Mathematics Courses in Computer Science... by BrainInAJar on Friday April 03, 2015 @05:23PM (#9318642)
A really good way to be awful at calculus is to not understand real analysis but you have to draw a line at some point. (heh)
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Re:The Importance of Mathematics Courses in Computer Science... by epistasis on Friday April 03, 2015 @03:14AM (#9314712)
There are large areas biology that depend crucially on calculus and other math. Genetics as a field is extremely quantitative. Ecology and evolution also rely heavily on mathematical models. You can get by in some parts of molecular biology and field biology without a great understanding of calculus, but even in those subfields its important to have an undergraduate-level understanding of genetics, ecology, and evolution.
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