[Jensson]

> Does math have many prerequisites?

Have you heard about stokes theorem? Or Fourier Transforms? Those aren't particularly high level math concepts, but they have years worth of math prerequisites, without prerequisites there is no way to understand such things properly, and there are things that are way deeper with more prerequisites than those.

And those aren't some arbitrary equations, they are core concepts that are very useful in so many situations. There is a reason those are taught to most engineers.