Timeline for Why does undergraduate discrete math require calculus?
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| Aug 31, 2010 at 18:20 | comment | added | dvitek | On the other hand, the average student at ROSS/Mathcamp is very different from the average first-year student at around 98% of US universities, and very different from the average math major at above 90% of US universities. (Both of those are conservative estimates - I don't mean to insult either program.) | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 0:55 | comment | added | Alfonso Gracia-Saz | To back up Noah's claim, I have taught topology and abstract algebra at Mathcamp without calculus as a prerequisite with no problem. | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 7:19 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | I learned formal differentiation in grade 4 and didn't learn (let alone understand) limits until grade 7 or later, so of course it's possible. But I don't see where differentiation is used in an essential way in an introductory discrete math course. For generating functions (and that's already combinatorics), generalized Newton binomial is usually sufficient. | |
| Jun 5, 2010 at 4:29 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |