/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.12174634]

>why are we doing Math in Biology?
>it's literally just ratios

[Anonymous No.12174742]

>first year of biology
>there are more math and physics classes than biology

[Anonymous No.12174806]

>>12174742
You need fundamental stats knowledge to grasp any of the complex bio topics such as population genetics and evolutionary theory, brainlet

[Anonymous No.12174850]

>>12174742
I'm only taking BIO because it's part of my degree and there were no physics classes available. It's like 90% women though, which is nice

[Anonymous No.12174918]

>>12174806
it wasn't even hard math. it was solving [eqn]p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1[/eqn]

[Anonymous No.12176305]

My uni had an established biology and mathematics double major program, looked based as fuck. And in any case, any science major that's not a complete brainlet will have programming skills under their belt, which means math

[Anonymous No.12177464]

>>12176305
You don't need much math for programming.

[Anonymous No.12177929]

>>12174634
Geometric growth of bacteria reduced by percentage that doesn't evolve to be antibiotic resistant at stable increase in dose, just to grow MRSA or Anthrax that's resistant to common antibiotics at agar at home, so you can then say that best terrorist studied biology.

Also Math is important for epidemiology, also for things like hormones, generally for the chemistry, for watching the population, graph to maintain your knowledge.

[Anonymous No.12177974]

>>12177464
Why do retarded fedoras always, without fail, IMMEDIATELY respond with this non-sequitur?
The guy was obviously talking about programming for scientific computing. This means constructing models and then implementing them on data sets or what have you. Sure you can codemonkey the implementation part if someone does all the other work for you and hands you an instruction set that has almost no reference to the original scientific content. That is obviously not what is meant, especially in the context of university coursework.
Fucking CS monkeys can never grasp the fact that someone else had to do real work before they were given their room temp IQ task.

[Anonymous No.12178025]

>>12177974
No, even most undergrad scientific computing applications use “room temperature IQ” methods when it comes to programming. Like dude, nobody cares about your number crunching assignment in R.
Either way real CS, which is not codemonkeying much less writing software, is a lot harder than either

[Anonymous No.12178074]

I just wanted to cut shit open

[Anonymous No.12180022]

>>12174634
nice greentext newfag, now learn how to use it

[Anonymous No.12180039]

>>12180022
I've been posting here for 5 months. I'm not a newfag anymore.

[Anonymous No.12181422]

>>12174918
So you're learning the maths necessary for basic population genetics in intorductory biology. Why do you find this strange?

[Anonymous No.12181460]

>>12180039
worse, you're a covidfag

[Anonymous No.12181958]

>>12181422
I didn't say I was the one having the problem or finding it strange, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.12181996]

>>12174634
>>12174742
>he thinks he's going to do evolutionary bio without a grounding in topological graph theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQMIRVv6R4