Many jobs deal with rates and how they change or how they are effected under certain conditions. Calculus examines this change in a rate, and is used in a variety of engineering and science careers.
Physics, many other branches of science, and all branches of engineering use calculus theories to solve practical problems. For example, an airplane designer uses principles from aerodynamics, a branch of physics, to help him design an airplane wing. He uses mathematical equations to help him find how the wing will react under various conditions. Calculus gives the designer the means to derive the equations from the principles of aerodynamics.
Other specific careers that utilize Calculus and higher math are: Biologist, Computer Programmer (real time), Aerospace Engineer, Air Quality Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Electronic Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Microwave Engineer, and Research Physicist.
"As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein
"Calulus
Bites the Big One." -The 1999 Calculus Class
"It's
all about me" - Aaron Kustin
"Hey
dummy" - K. L. K.
"One has to be able to
count, if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty." -Maxim
Gorky
"Integration by parts
is always good, even if it does not get you anywhere you still feel good."
-Dr. Kent Goodrich
"The only way I can distinguish
proper from improper fractions is by their actions." -Ogden Nash
"Let no one ignorant
of mathematics enter here." -Plato
"Mathematics possesses
not only truth, but supreme beauty -a beauty cold and austere, like that
of sculpture." -Bertrand Russell
"I knew a mathematician
who said ‘I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew
at my age.’ " -Milton Shulman
"Numbers constitute the
only universal language." -Nathaniel West
Life is good for only
two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. -Simion Poisson
For the things of this
world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. -Roger Bacon
Obvious is the most dangerous
word in mathematics. -Eric Temple Bell
It isn't that they can't
see the solution: It's that they can't see the problem. -G.K. Chesterton
Don't worry about your
difficulties in mathematics. I assure you mine are greater. -Albert Einstein
How long did it take
six men to build a wall if three of them took a week. I recall that we
spent almost as much time on this problem as the men spent on the wall.
-Gerald Durrell
Stand firm in your refusal
to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is
no such thing as algebra. -Fran Lebowitz
The knowledge of numbers
is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. -Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu
"Contrariwise," continued
Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it was so, it would be,
but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -Lewes Carroll, Through the
Looking Glass
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