‘Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.’ –Stendhal
There are several trends that might suggest a diminishing role for mathematics in engineering work. First, there is the rise of software engineering as a separate discipline. It just doesn’t take as much math to write an operating system as it does to design a printed circuit board. Programming is rigidly structured and, at the same time, an evolving art form—neither of which is especially amenable to mathematical analysis.
photo { Guillaume Zuili }
