What % of the math you learned during your years of education...

[Juked07]

And, I answered that, while also pointing out that percentages are quite often meaningless, as in the case of the OP.

I think it's not obvious that what percentage of a person's math he uses is less interesting than what percentage of some fixed body of mathematical knowledge he use. Knowing someone's use of math on some absolute math scale can be equally meaningless. If someone hardly ever uses math at all, how does it matter how much he learned in the first place? It could matter much more, for someone who only ever learned up to algebra, whether he actually uses concepts like arithmetic on a daily basis.

The former is much more closely related to ideas of whether people spend an appropriate amount of time accumulating knowledge, relative to how much they will use in the future.

The second question might also be very interesting in other contexts, but it doesn't seem clear at all that the answer to the OP's question cannot be interesting.

 

[Dominato3r]

In school aiming to become a pilot - about half. It's more of the stuff from physics class (trig, projectiles), but you also "need" logarithms, exponentials, and functions.

 

[Imp]

Adding, subtracting, multiplication and division.

Ya, civil engineer, so glad I didn't get into the other engineering programs. We do most of our shit with programs and have neatly put together empirical solutions.

Hey, but all that calculus and linear algebra they taught us sure did help in weeding people out...

 

[gevorg]

100%.

Too many people underestimate the power of math. Thinking that math is a waste if you don't use in real life is very stupid. Math greatly contributes to ones brain development (especially children), logical thinking and decision analysis. There is much more to it than knowing how to solve equations (unless your education system sucks and all you learn is how to plug-in numbers 🙂 ).

 

[HAL9000]

100%.

Too many people underestimate the power of math. Thinking that math is a waste if you don't use in real life is very stupid. Math greatly contributes to ones brain development (especially children), logical thinking and decision analysis. There is much more to it than knowing how to solve equations.

True, but I would call that logic not Maths.

 

[gevorg]

True, but I would call that logic not Maths.

You need math to build logic. You need logic to build intelligence. 🙂

 

[HAL9000]

You need math to build logic. You need logic to build intelligence. 🙂

I disagree, you need logic to build maths. Logic is the fundamental of all arguments, maths is a set of arguments.

 

[Drako]

I disagree, you need logic to build maths. Logic is the fundamental of all arguments, maths is a set of arguments.

I picture you lisping when you say "maths".

 

[TecHNooB]

I disagree, you need logic to build maths. Logic is the fundamental of all arguments, maths is a set of arguments.

you're both talking about the same thing.

 

[HAL9000]

I picture you lisping when you say "maths".

I picture you confused or not an english speaker when you say "math".

you're both talking about the same thing.

Logic != Maths.

 

[Drako]

Logic = Math.

FTFY

 

[HAL9000]

FTFY

Philosophy requires logical arguments, but not mathematical arguments.

 

[TecHNooB]

Philosophy requires logical arguments, but not mathematical arguments.

does studying math improve your logic?

 

[HAL9000]

does studying math improve your logic?

It absolutely can do, the same as studying philosophy can improve your logic.

 

[Drako]

Philosophy requires logical arguments, but not mathematical arguments.

I thought it "mathematicals", now I'm confused 🙂

 

[HAL9000]

I thought it "mathematicals", now I'm confused 🙂

mathematics.

 

[TecHNooB]

It absolutely can do, the same as studying philosophy can improve your logic.

give me a simple example of philosophy that requires logic.

 

[HAL9000]

give me a simple example of philosophy that requires logic.

The Deontological Argument, would be a perfect start. But more fundamentally than that:

I think therefore I am.