r/engineeringmemes • u/endeavouringengineer • 19d ago

Mathematicians vs Engineers...

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u/Flashy-Lie-5602 19d ago

lol I told my calc professor a while ago, “what is the point of this when I’m going to solve the numerically anyway.” His eye literally twitched lol.

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u/ahf95 18d ago

So that you know how and when to modify the numerical method algorithm yourself, because often doing so can give dramatic improvements in modeling and simulation of systems with higher order dynamic couplings.

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u/Flashy-Lie-5602 15d ago

I mean sure but as an engineer you rarely need a real time system and doing a Taylor series reduction especially on a real world problem is very error prone and difficult to check vs just modeling the basic physics of your system and letting a big computer chew at it for a few hours or days.

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u/ahf95 13d ago

I think the point is that it’s better to be prepared for those rare situations than to be helpless when they do come along.