| While I agree with some observations:
a) most only use basic maths at their daily jobs) b) math and computer science degrees are used as a filtering criteria, by recruiters hiring for actuary/stats/finance and programming jobs I disagree with what appear to be a conjecture, and the subsequent conclusion: > Acceptance of the conjecture should have revolutionary
> educational implications .
> In particular, it undermines the legitimacy of requiring higher mathematics of all students.
> Such mathematics is actually needed by only a
> minute fraction of the workforce
Being able to abstract business-specific/domain specific problems into something that already has well-researched, validated and implement solution -- is critical, and gives a business an edge.This is the type of capability (together with knowing a broad universe of solved topics), that the graduates with CS and Math degrees should bring in into the workforce. I do agree with the author's implication, that there is a 'placebo-style' filtering that's going on by most of the recruiter. And it is unfortunate, because it brings into Computer Science, especially, a huge number of people who have neither the passion, no life-long perseverance to be current in the subject. |