The Machines Have Already Taken Over [MicroBusiness]
Fred Schindler · IEEE Microwave Magazine · 2023
Between high school, college, and graduate school I took lots of calculus courses. But how much did I use that knowledge outside of course work at those schools? Very little. In my professional career, working as an engineer, I’ve rarely employed any calculus. I can think of only a handful of times I’ve used it, and then only simple integrals and derivatives. That’s not to say calculus hasn’t extensively contributed to my work. But machines did it for me. Or more accurately, people skilled in the use of calculus wrote programs to perform calculations used in my work.