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From: mquigley@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Martyn Quigley, E3044, x8656)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: DiffEq - heave-ho (Was: What math would you require?)
Message-ID: <70155@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 16 Mar 90 17:24:13 GMT
References: <8368@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <32769@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1652@cs.rit.edu>
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In article <1652@cs.rit.edu>, mjl@cs.rit.edu writes:
> The general thread in this discussion seems to be favoring continuous
> mathematics (up through differential equations) over what, for lack of
> a better term, I'll call "abstract mathematics"...
> Thus, I'd leave differential equations as an elective, and push for
> more discrete mathematics or algebra (like group theory).  Let's teach
> mathematics appropriate to the discipline.

I second the motion, but why not scrap all the calculus?  Presumably
we've all got Macsyma or Maple or some such.  I find it most 
interesting that so many remarks on this thread favour the retention 
of mathematics which is perfectly capable of being mechanised - by 
computer!

> Mike Lutz	Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester N