Wtf is this shit? I just wanted to make games

There's plenty of stuff you could do but the hardware could not muster 20 years ago. Heck.. graphics cards weren't even around back then.

I was exaggerating, but it's not like someone is going to even attempt to recreate a physics engine from scratch.

The tech has evolved over many years using lots of money and experts. Almost all game programmers are going to use preexisting systems.

The math will be very useless for game programming.

Someone who uses a tool without understanding how it works is no better than a trained monkey.

Lots of people still do that every day and even at home. Doing ray tracers, physics engines. The focus shifts. Most of the algorithms developed during the 1900 will have to be completely replaced by parallellizable algorithms to perform decently on any new hardware since everything moves towards parallellism these days.

That sounds cool. I am still not very convinced that most people will get to use the math that they are forced to learn, but I guess there definitely will be some lucky ones doing some very interesting things (e.g. Like the parallelization that you brought up).

Yes maybe many people who take courses don't end up coding using the content of the courses. What do you mean "get to". They will do it one way or another. The question is if people will be wise enough to benefit from it or if they will throw it in the bin. There is always someone responsible for resource allocation somewhere.

Almost no programmer that I know needs any advanced math from college to do their job. College taught no practical skills.

I suppose they could do differential equations as a hobby after work, but who is really going to do that?

Tight. If this is really just undergrad ODEs, your prof. put a cool problem on there. Problem 3 is just doing a basic finite element method by hand.

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Yes most jobs don't require very advanced math. But that is not the question. The question is how can we help people with money have any use for their money. It's not by encouraging people who probably could be making algorithm breakthroughs to be satisfied coding web-apps.