Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Fortune Quote #598

When I was teaching mathematics to future naval officers during the war, I
was told that the Navy had found that the men who had studied calculus made
better line officers than men who had not studied calculus. Nothing is
clearer (it was clear even to the Navy) than that a line officer never has
the slightest use for calculus. -- R.P. Boas, Jr.

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