Re: What math class to take to catch up on Modulus and DLP?
From: George Ou (533george_ou234_at_netzero234.com)
Date: 09/08/03
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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 05:45:11 GMT
Tom,
I agree with you that it is possible to be a complete idiot even with
a PhD (and I've personally known some), and it's possible to be a
complete genius without a PhD (Mr. Diffie) or even a bachelors (Mr
Dell or Mr Gates). However, I think it is safe to say statistically
that you are 10-100 times more likely to push the envelope of any
discipline when comparing 2 identical people of equal talent if you
had the luxury of receiving a college education.
I personally didn't have the luxury to finish my school beyond my
sophomore year in engineering because I had to put it on hold due to
lack of funds, and my current career and family prevents me from
resuming. But make no mistake, if I had to do it all over again, I
would have put myself in massive debt to finish my school. Am I more
successful than the average BS or BA? Probably. But I can't help
wonder where I would be had I finished my Engineering degree or even
some kind of grad school.
Are there arrogant graduates? Certainly. But arrogance is more a
function of the individual, and graduates definitely don't have a
monopoly on it. I've had tech wizards who are really good at their
jobs scream at me because they don't even know the basics of physics,
and they actually believe that power (Watt) was the same thing as
current (Ampere). I've had others scream at me that I didn't know
what I was talking about when I told them that objects of any size and
weight fall at the same speed in a vacuum. I've even had some fairly
intelligent computer science students scream at me that I was full of
it when I told them a car colliding into a very solid and stationary
object at 40 mph is the same as colliding into a car of equal size
going 40 mph in the opposite direction. They all felt pretty good
about telling me off, and it was clearly a case of "ignorance is
bliss".
George Ou
http://www.LANArchitect.net
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