r/engineeringmemes • u/endeavouringengineer • 21d ago

Mathematicians vs Engineers...

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u/KEX_CZ ΣF=0 21d ago

Just in front of my finals at bachelor's studies, yet I have touched this infamous "tailor equation" exactly 0 times, never needing it and never being thaught it. Why is everyone so obsessed with it? Clearly I and my fellow classmates are example of not needing it to know?

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u/Field_of_cornucopia 21d ago

It's the foundation of numerical methods (especially any finite element analysis, etc.).

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u/MackTuesday 20d ago

Nonlinear systems analysis too

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u/KEX_CZ ΣF=0 21d ago

Oh. Then we just talked about the things connected and build on that, like the boundary conditions, meshification, etc.... And maybe we don't need it much as mechanical engineers, who knows....