What Can You Learn After Calculus?

by Sanjana Kulkarni and Justin Skycak on

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What can you learn after calculus? Well, there is a whole world of math afterwards.

If you go down the applied math path, you might find yourself taking differential equations where you model really complicated real-world systems. And you’ll use a lot of probability and statistics where you study randomness and uncertainty and distributions.

And by the way, that’s calculus-based probability and statistics I’m talking about.

It gets really, really complicated and when you go far enough, you actually end up using tools from calculus, not just algebra, but calculus integrals, derivatives to model all that complexity.

And you also need bunches of tools from linear algebra: vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors… see, the thing is calculus is not the end of math at all.

It’s really the starting point where you get to choose your own adventure.

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