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65 Post author: lukeprog 06 December 2012 12:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 07:22:34PM *  1 point [-]

We don't listen to electrical engineers when they complain about needing to know nitty-gritty calculus

Correction: you don't. Those of us who teach EEs (really, any class of engineers), do.

Comment author: sketerpot 07 December 2012 01:05:48AM *  2 points [-]

Sure, but the curriculum doesn't actually change in response to engineering students complaining about the difficulty of their calculus classes. That's because the stuff in those classes actually applies, in easy-to-see ways. There's almost a 1:1 match between the sylllabi of engineering math classes and the math that engineering classes end up needing. (This is not a coincidence.)

Comment author: [deleted] 07 December 2012 12:37:23PM -1 points [-]

This is not correct. Compare a vector calculus book from fifty years ago with the relevant sections of Stewart.