In our daily lives, individuals, corporations and societies are constantly involved in making decisions. We hope to make optimal choices, especially when faced with recurrent decision processes. Thus we care about why and how our decision processes change over time. As a practicing engineer and an instructor in higher education, it is my opinion that a course on how optimal decisions are made and change should be part of a standard curriculum for a wide range of fields, including engineering, business, economics, project management and social sciences.

Complex analysis is a versatile tool that is used extensively in science, engineering and other fields. It is also a beautiful topic in and of itself. Hence, a course in complex analysis is a standard part of the curriculum for physics and engineering students and a stepping stone for more advanced topics in mathematics.

“The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.” — Marc Andreessen, inventor of the Netscape browser

Multivariable calculus extends calculus concepts to functions of several variables and is an essential tool for modeling and regression analysis in economics, engineering, data science and other fields. Learning multivariable calculus is also the first step toward advanced calculus and follows single-variable calculus courses. Wolfram Language provides world-class functionality for the computation and visualization of concepts, which makes this elegant body of mathematical knowledge easy and fun to learn!