> In another comment, you said that you don't know what the Navier-Stokes equations are. Given that, I don't think you're in a good position to judge their value.

It was an exaggeration given that it never came up during my studies once. And I think that's a fantastic assessment of their value that I made it through most of a decade of studies without having to know a thing about fluid dynamics.

> I have a couple of group theory books myself, and I don't agree with your assessment that group theory should get priority over fluid dynamics.

...why? You're commenting on a physics line of education here. We don't use fluid dynamics and we extensively use group theory.