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> I got a B in Linear Algebra, and I still can't describe why you'd need that in the real world

seems odd in a world full of 3D graphics and machine learning, which are built on heaping piles of linear algebra.




I think this is one of the big advantages of a broad undergraduate education in math; the math that I use frequently looks very different from the math used by people in <insert other field>. I have essentially never used any calc/analysis/topology/geometry/number theory/etc stuff in the real world, but graph theory, stats, linear algebra, etc have come up a LOT. Which stands at odds with a lot of my college friends who need a completely different set of tools in their current work.




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