&gt; Not really. Maybe that&#x27;s why nobody invented anything with a diode in the signal path before computers were commonplace right? Like radio and guitar distortion pedals<p>No, those problems were solved via ultra simplified models. E.g. The current through a diode is described as I = I_0 \Theta(U - 0.7 V). And the rest was done via try and error.<p>&gt; Sure, let&#x27;s forget the math and make engineers totally dependent on numerical simulation without knowing the basics, I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;ll work just fine<p>How about, lets learn how to solve every differential equation you will ever come across in electronics using e.g. Runge-Kutta.<p>&gt; Just call .sort() and you&#x27;re done!<p>If you want to get shit done you do exactly that. This is a great problem of many fresh CS graduates. Instead of doing the actual work they would rather first implement their own sort function. In 99.9% of the cases it is a complete waste of time.<p>&gt; Also don&#x27;t forget Digital Signal Processing, that also relies on that &quot;useless knowledge&quot;<p>In Digital Signal Processing you mainly need to Fourier transform and know the properties of the sin(x)&#x2F;x function, Nyquist, Shannon etc... Learning how to solve a very special case of systems of differential equations using the Laplace transform won&#x27;t help you there at all.