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I'm a math major, which means I genuinely like mathematics. But I may be becoming a "pure math snob:"
http://img.spikedmath.com/comics/446-pure-math-vs-applied-math.png
When I'm working on differential equations, I'm finding it very tedious, like it's "not my kind of math." My brain says "This is engineering crap, I shouldn't be doing this."
Yet some other part of my brain is saying, "hey, the machinery behind this is really quite fascinating." Doing proofs on this is probably more interesting than doing problems, I suspect.
I feel like I'm missing something. I feel like old Diffy Q. and I were not properly introduced. I've read that basically the entire point of doing calculus is so that you can do Differential equations which model all sorts of behavior. That they are incredibly useful, that they can save the world, etc. etc.
But I have that non-practical math side that says "ok, big deal. Give it to the physicists and engineers!"
But seriously, what am I missing? Can I learn to love this subject, or should I just avoid it for the rest of my studies?
-Dave K
http://img.spikedmath.com/comics/446-pure-math-vs-applied-math.png
When I'm working on differential equations, I'm finding it very tedious, like it's "not my kind of math." My brain says "This is engineering crap, I shouldn't be doing this."
Yet some other part of my brain is saying, "hey, the machinery behind this is really quite fascinating." Doing proofs on this is probably more interesting than doing problems, I suspect.
I feel like I'm missing something. I feel like old Diffy Q. and I were not properly introduced. I've read that basically the entire point of doing calculus is so that you can do Differential equations which model all sorts of behavior. That they are incredibly useful, that they can save the world, etc. etc.
But I have that non-practical math side that says "ok, big deal. Give it to the physicists and engineers!"
But seriously, what am I missing? Can I learn to love this subject, or should I just avoid it for the rest of my studies?
-Dave K
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