RE: Chemistry and Math vs Destiny - unusual reactions
And it's probably one of the reasons why the best students are not the best entrepreneurs. Good students know how to learn from the books they have, but they never get training in innovation, marketing, psychology, "street-smartness"...
It's also a problem that during the entire education, many people never learn about fuzzy logic, about non-linear processes, about particle swarm, Monte Carlo, Neural Networks... And those concepts are important at philosophical level.
You can find a solution, for some problems (not for all the problems), if you apply many iterations. Working hard is not always the solution.
You can fit anything if you apply the equation with 5 or 10 parameters.
Something can be 83% correct.
You can't predict the weather (or your future) for a long time span - because you can't solve such equation.
You are not allowed to extrapolate!
And so on, and so on... Math is The Queen
Moreover, in engineering at least, one indicator is whether they can interpret the math or not. Equally valid answers could be 'because the denomiator gets larger, so it must get smaller' and 'there is increased turbulence, so mixing is more efficient', but one answer certainly shows a better grasp of the concept.