> fairly easily... not so easy.
Yea, totally, STEM majors are inherently special and better at learning ;)
I learned how to learn by going through STEM.
Also, STEM produces right and wrong answers. If the airplane you design doesn't fly, you cannot pretend that it is flying.
That isn't true with liberal arts. Any failure can be explained away.
I've yet to find a liberal arts grad who even knows what a partial differential equation is.
He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1890 and graduated in 1893 with a Bachelor of Arts.
At Cambridge, Russell was introduced to philosophy
I learnt more about his work from his successors who were / are a mix of philosophy and mathematics majors, the majority fully aware of partial differential equations at the very least.
Of the people my age, there are folks such as Dominic Hyde who majored in liberal arts while studying both math and physics alongside Jerome Gauntlett (who did not major in liberal arts .. although he has acted alongside Nicole Kidman) and others. They all grok PDEs.
Closer to our mutual "home", HN on ycombinator, I understand that Paul Graham, the forum founder and co-creator of the Arc programming language, is yet another liberal arts major who understands what PDE's are.
* https://hpi.uq.edu.au/profile/388/dominic-hyde
* https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/j.gauntlett
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)
It's a wide world, get out and meet more people.
It was clear the authors did not expect the econ students to know calculus, and they obfuscated the calculus so they would not scare the students off.
Take a liberal arts class and your reading comprehension may improve.
> knows what a partial differential equation is.
I’ve met a few but tbh that’s a pretty weird way to judge “inherently better”.