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Now, when I see the US university curriculum even at schools like MIT. They take 3 calc classes before they even get to see the good things like combinatorics, statistics, etc? I mean why? What went wrong? There has to something that I am missing

Unfortunately I don’t have it offhand, and I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but I remember reading something a while back saying that this was the result of Cold War era education reform, when engineering fields were big.

What's wrong with calculus? Even though I think linear algebra is more important these days.

Statistic etc really doesn't work without those basic building blocks unless you stick to the very basic level.

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