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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
when i was in architecture school we had to take one quarter of calculus.
i just didn't get it at all. it is the only math class ever that i got less than a b in. i am not sure but it is possible i never got less than an a in other math courses. and i got all a's in my structures as well i am pretty sure.
the calculus was totally worthless. i have never needed it ever before or since.
and it is no longer required for the architecture degree.
tom w
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That's fine. AIA probably requires hiring an engineer under some circumstances, but that's well out of my realm (by golly, I hope they do!).
Just as I think an educated man (or a man who claims a university education) should know something of the Peloponnesian War, Marxism, and the Renaissance, I think he should know who Christopher Wren and Frank Lloyd Wright were, why Mozart was a genius of staggering immensity, and how Galileo got in trouble, and why Isaac Newton was important.
Nearly everything we have enjoy the industrial age is directly traceable to Newton's physical insights, for which he developed the calculus to fully describe. He is the most important man in history since Jesus Christ. One cannot deeply appreciate the changes Newton originated in how we see man and the universe, without the calculus--which he invented (or discovered, if you will).