Yes, totally. I was about to undero surgery but found out the doctor didn't even know about Laplace transforms. He small-mindedly spent his formative years learning anatomy, never benefitting from the knowledge of frequency-domain derivatives. I dodged that bullet by storming out.
replyYou joke, but if you talked to a doctor of radiology odds are they at least took a class covering Fourier Transforms.
replyWould you say the same about learning Christianity: maybe not directly useful for your job, however it is rather foundational to much of English society.
replyYeah! I've found that learning the foundations of religions is a great way to inoculate people from worst aspects of those ideas.
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