[Buttons840]

The right curriculum is also important. I don't know why so much emphasis is placed on calculus. Why was my calculus class filled with nursing students? Why weren't they off studying statistics, logic, set theory or any other of the more applicable fields of mathematics?

[jacobolus]

If nursing students never study calculus, you sometimes end up with Tai’s Formula for calculating the area under a curve http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract now with nearly 300 citations.

This is a method which was known <50 BCE to the Babylonians, and is taught to every high school calculus student as the “trapezoid rule”.