John,
Were you a math major in college?
Or did your studies require higher levels of mathematics for them?
e.g. for the grad school classes in chemical engineering, they required us to also use, or take, a lot more mathematics, than we did for undergrad.
That math made it easier to describe, codify, &/or solve more complex situations that we were presented with, in those new engineering classes.
It was explained that it was similar to how Newton needed calculus to help him with his studies of comet trajectories (except he invented a form of calculus to that end).
Or like my brother-in-law who is an actuarial, where they need a lot more math to solve things than even engineers do.
Or like the advanced mathematics required by quantum physics.
Or like the mathematical modeling techniques required to develop real-time simulations by software.
Did you learn most of your mathematics in college, or did you further develop your knowledge and skill, on your own, long after you graduated?
Gino
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