As a side note; There is plenty of useful math that many people need (or would benefit from) in the real world. Much math curricula is arguably poorly aligned to needs, as it emerged from various historical flukes of design-by-committee. Popular math curricula is not perfect by any means. I recommend looking at high school or college textbooks and considering whether it is well prioritized.
replyIn principle I agree with you.
replyThe missing part of mathematics education, IMO, would be to focus more into developing the intuition of what something means, instead of the current focus on getting some (numeric) results.
computational complexity was never part of calculus. Calculus is the math of continuous change.
replyYou don’t learn Big-O in Calculus because it requires CS algorithmic concepts.
replyBut the core question of “how does this behave as N -> \infty?” is asymptotic behavior (ie: limits) which were developed for calculus and are very much part of the foundational calculus canon.
I should add that text to the rant at my last paragraph!
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