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Is it useful for an engineer to learn math outside of what is taught in the program?

If so, what are the best topics to study?

>> No.10379493

>>10379473
That's exactly what I'm doing right now. But you shouldn't even care about that. Nobody gives a fuck what you do either, so just do something that you give a fuck about. It's such a simple concept yet these "Is X a meme" and "Help I got memes into X" keep popping up.

>> No.10379497

Not really, no.

>> No.10379500

>>10379473
All math can be made useful with sufficient motivation and time for people to develop applications. Number theory was thought to be largely useless until modern cryptography. Lots of topology shows up in machine vision and in robotics when you have to make a series of decisions on how to traverse space. The list goes on. Basically, keep an open mind, read interesting stuff, and you'll find a way.

>> No.10379506

>>10379500
Sweet. Any particular reccomendation for where to start, if not for usefulness, then for simplicity/how interresting it is?

>> No.10379512

>>10379493
What are you studying right now?

>> No.10379528

>>10379506
Control theory, differential geometry, functional analysis, fourier analysis. Those are already pretty motivated if you want to do grad school or research in engineering. The easiest ones to make useful are usually linked to physics and optimization topics.

>> No.10379542

>>10379528
Sweet list. Fourier analysis actually looks pretty interresting.

>> No.10379697

>>10379473
Calculus 1&2, Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations, Complex Variables, Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, Functional Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Control Theory, Calculus of Variations, Convex Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Differential Geometry, Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, Finite Fields, etc...

>> No.10379933

>>10379528
Or advanced EM gets into tensors. For most math Controls for sure

>> No.10380084

>>10379512
Computer Eng and Math. Doing Topo on my own when I have a bit of time.