anonym comments on What is wrong with mathematics education? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: anonym 23 March 2011 07:02:36AM 2 points [-]

I think discrete math is another tragically under-represented math topic that would be of more benefit to most people than calculus. Within that broad topic, I'd single out the essentials of logic, set theory, combinatorics, and basic discrete probability: those are the sorts of things that most people, regardless of what they do for a living, could profitably use to do their jobs better from time to time and to solve the problems that day-to-day life throws at them.