Most valuable Math class you took?

jmilton90
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:23:57 +0000

Linear algebra for me. (chemE). Calculus/DiffEq is second. But normally, “real” engineering problems can’t be solved analytically and cleanly with just calculus solutions. So numeric techniques are quite often used which is founded in linear algebra to some extent.

And any actual integral or derivative you would need to do, it will be most likely be pretty complex and in interest of time you would need math software tools like Matlab or Mathematica for solutions.