Re: Constraints and Functional Dependencies

On Mar 1, 10:35 pm, "V.J. Kumar" <vjkm..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote innews:0rHFh.3242$PV3.40272@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:
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> > V.J. Kumar wrote:
> >> Well, as regards college level math education, if you want real
> >> stuff, you go to
> >> Princeton/Yale/Chicago/whatever_math_school_is_of_interest_to_you,
> >> not to some state college shithole, right ?
>
> > I did not go to a state college shithole, and I think my undergraduate
> > education sucked.
>
> Then clearly you went to a private college shithole. Why did not you
> transfer to a non-shithole college ?
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> > It's all about choices you are
> >> willing to make provided that you are qualified to make them of
> >> course. If you are not qualified, tough luck, blame your parents or
> >> genes, anyone or anything but yourself ;)
>
> > Okay. But what if I am qualified, why can I not blame them anyway?
>
> By all means.
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> >> In any case, monetary value of so-called "exact science" education,
> >> as my Russian coworkers call it for some reason, is highly overrated.
> >> You might be much happier and wealthier selling stuff like cars, or
> >> XML databases to even bigger idiots ;) For some reason, some Russians
> >> and Asians have not yet grasped these simple truths and are still
> >> clinging to the mythical value of math/physics/whatever literally
> >> beaten into them by their parent and teachers in their home country
> >> secondary schools with military style discipline and curriculum.
>
> > Why then do I know so many physicists in the software field?
>
> a. They are not good enough as physicists
> b. Pay is better
> c. Both (a) and (b), most likely (b) being the primary reason.
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Speaking about the level of an educational system in math should not be done only through its top level schools. By definition, such schools have top level (Princeton, etc) and it would be reasonnable to assume that all top level schools in the world have comparable level. We are indeed talking about average level of schools. As I said, and speaking from experience, there is no doubt in my mind in the low level of math in US educational system. The advance taken by European schools starts in high school where european students gain insights on subjects to which american students are not exposed before their sophomore of even senior year. Received on Fri Mar 02 2007 - 10:00:19 CET