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Why should I study math? Anonymous Mon May 21 13:05:07 2018 No.9757278 [Reply] [Original]

Biologist and I have plenty of free time this year guys, pass me some reasons why should I study math?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:07:42 2018 No.9757284 you can finally understand hardy weinberg

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:12:40 2018 No.9757300 >>9757284 why?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:18:38 2018 No.9757311 >Biologist If you can count, that's enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:19:14 2018 No.9757312 >>9757278 >Biologist Not science or math.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:20:02 2018 No.9757314 >>9757278 so you do not accidentally publish an article about innovative method of calculating area under a curve by trapezoid aproximations.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:22:17 2018 No.9757321 >>9757312 >math Not science or mas

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:28:02 2018 No.9757329 You should study math to find out why you should study math.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:30:13 2018 No.9757334 >>9757278 So that you can look smart.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:34:07 2018 No.9757341 >>9757278 don't, get drunk and fuck around

Anonymous Mon May 21 13:37:14 2018 No.9757348

>>9757278
Doesn't your major at least require calc 2 and statistics?

I'm not a math whizz so I don't really know exactly where you want to take things next; maybe calc 3 and 4 would be useful for some areas of bio if you're interested in the physical chemistry perspective

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:40:13 2018 No.9757354 >>9757314 I still can't get over that this happened, it's hilarious

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:41:33 2018 No.9757355 >>9757314 >by trapezoid approximations someone hasn't read the paper... the actual method uses RECTANGLES and TRIANGLES

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 13:50:39 2018 No.9757375 >>9757278 So that you can do cool biological math modeling, an immense and mostly uncharted domain.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 14:30:29 2018 No.9757435 >>9757341 +1

>>	Anonymous Mon May 21 14:32:36 2018 No.9757439 >>9757278 So that engineers won't mock your "science" degree and dance around you giggling and making air quotes with their fingers.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 03:02:56 2018 No.9758772 >>9757439 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 07:19:53 2018 No.9759004 >>9757278 So that you can calculate the area under a curve without a digital scale.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 07:29:55 2018 No.9759011 File: 28 KB, 1104x795, shapes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9757355

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 09:11:21 2018 No.9759126 File: 81 KB, 357x500, a236e8d43b0eb37f568d43ba6ab703d2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9757314 >>9757354 kek I forgot about that.That was actually published right?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 10:30:53 2018 No.9759235 >>9757354 link

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 10:42:56 2018 No.9759255 >>9757278 To gain mathematical literacy, without which, you are not truly educated.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:34:09 2018 No.9759774 >>9759235 >>9759126 >>9759011 >>9757355 >>9757354 >>9757314 Link pls

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 15:38:30 2018 No.9759791 >>9759774 nvm found http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152

>>	Anonymous Tue May 22 20:02:55 2018 No.9760395 >>9757278 Graduate HS before posting here please

Anonymous Tue May 22 20:59:55 2018 No.9760513
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>>9757278
For the sake of getting acquainted with the methods of said discipline - it's like if you asked us why you should study philosophy or visual arts in your free time. I won't try to persuade you if you're already well into your major, leave that task to the projecting "muh IQ" assholes here on /sci/. For a primer to actual mathematical reasoning (and not just mindless computation, which is not the point of math at all) you could check out Hammack's Book of Proof: https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

>>	Anonymous Wed May 23 10:37:02 2018 No.9761863 >>9759791 How did this happen?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 00:33:32 2018 No.9763543 >>9761863 Biologists don't know jack shit about mathematics, because the field doesn't much need it outside of some poorly applied statistics.

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