epicmartin7
Smash Master
As an aspiring Astronomer... I can definitely agree. While Calculus definitely allowed for a more in-depth understanding of things such as Gravity and the quantum world... those are things that have been already derived for you and is something that is really not necessary to derive yourself nowadays. Hell, if you need a bit of calculus, you just need a bit of technology, and you're good to go.As a practicing mechanical engineer, I found it heavily ironic to discover that calculus is almost totally worthless in a practical setting. In my personal experience, the two most useful forms of math for the real world are geometry and trigonometry, aside from the obvious addition, subtraction, etc. Those two can be applied to construction, mechanical design and physics. Everything else is very situational for anyone that isn't a math professor or an algorithm programmer.
Geometry and Trigonometry are very important in Astronomy. Especially if one were to go into celestial mechanics. Almost all the planets and solar system objects follow some sort of elliptical orbit, which requires knowledge of geometry to even do. And then, there's measuring the parallax of an object in the sky using trigonometry.
So yeah, definitely agree there. Trig and Geometry and probably two biggest things to learn first.