What course have you found to be most useful?

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In summary, the forum members shared the courses they found most useful in their current roles. These included Statistics, General Chemistry, Geometry, Thermodynamics, and Statics/Mechanics of Materials. Some also mentioned Differential Equations, Arithmetic, and Technical Writing as valuable courses. Many agreed that Statistics was a crucial course, especially for those pursuing careers in fields such as financial mathematics.
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Hey fellow forum members,

I just thought it would be interesting to hear what course you found to be most useful in your current day-to day role (occupation). It can be any course that you've taken at high school, undergraduate level, graduate level, or courses offered on coursera.

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Wow. Good question!

Statistics ranks pretty high - I use or see things I learned in that class probably every day.

General Chemistry.

Geometry.

Thermodynamics, but I rarely directly apply it directly. It just gave me a better understanding of "the world".

Statics/Mechanics of Materials (tie).
 
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Differential equations. A very boring class, but very useful class as well.
 
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Arithmetic? If limited to high school, probably algebra and pre-calc.
 
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Technical writing is a big one. If you can't effectively communicate ideas, those ideas usually don't make it very far.
 
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physics, more precisely, thermodynamics and mechanics - outside of the kitchen I work on anything with wheels.
 
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Statistics for sure, now I wish I've learned a lot more about it, but that's because I'm a physicist going to financial mathematics.
 
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Tosh5457 said:
Statistics for sure, now I wish I've learned a lot more about it, but that's because I'm a physicist going to financial mathematics.

Yeah that's a career path I'm considering (though I'm a physics undergrad), so I know I'll definitely need a lot of statistics/probability.
 

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