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was it calculus?

Calculus 2

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NoxObscuras posted...

Calculus 2

did you find it very difficult?

Calc 1
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Differential equations and some emag classes of that counts.

Friend tried to convince me to take abstract algebra and theoretical calculus or something one year... I just laughed.
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Fundamental proofs and therums of calculus

I failed it because I didn't really care at all for it. It was the last class I needed for a bachelor's in mathematics as well


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IB Calculus in high school (paid fuck-all attention, it was senior year), Stats in college

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I literally couldn't pass algebra.

Survey of Mathematics in college. It's rudimentary, but I'm also math dyslexic. It was a pain in the ass, but I passed with a C, and I'm okay with that.

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Calculus 3? Intro to differential equations? I passed all my math classes and don't remember shit

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Linear algebra and calculus 4.

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Two days of calc, before noping out.

Calc 4 (linear algebra).

Though Calc 4 was way easier than Calc 3 (multi-variable calculus).

Discrete mathematics and Calculus 2. I started to take a summer class on Calc 3 because I was thinking of a math major and then I remembered I'm WAY too lazy to be working out those multivariable integrals for the next three years LMAO

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Calc 3, but imo Calc 2 was harder. Diff EQ is kind of its own thing, not sure if that counts as higher than Calc 3 or not.

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Complex Analysis to wrap up my fun little math degree I don't technically use, but makes people think I'm smart.

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A college calculus class. I remember nothing at all from it.

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KazGT6 posted...

did you find it very difficult?

Absolutely. Made worse by the professor having a thick accent lol.

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Higher Mathematics 3

Content was mainly PDEs and Statistics
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Calculus 2 for my biochemistry degree

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My bachelor's is in Mathematics
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Linear Algebra was my final math course.
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Calc 2

Though physics with calc, had some harder problems because you had to actually think the effects through even if in general the math wasnt quite as complex.

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Calculus 3 I took it three times because I wanted to pass with a B.

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Probably either Differential Geometry or Linear Algebra (the full-on theoretical stuff, not the applied Linear Algebra that every engineering/physics/cs student has to do). Or maybe Graphs and Network Theory.

Linear Algebra/Differential Equations

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I'm taking Calc 1 right now, planning to go further (as im only a freshman majoring in compsci)

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Either econometrics or calc for econ

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I've taken a lot of graduate level stuff.

Real Analysis and Partial Differential Equations stood out to me as the most difficult. Topology and Abstract Algebra are up there too.

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Shadow Don posted...

I've taken a lot of graduate level stuff.

Real Analysis and Partial Differential Equations stood out to me as the most difficult. Topology and Abstract Algebra are up there too.

That's graduate stuff? As an engineering undergrad, half of my third semester mathematics course was PDEs
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Basic Math 2.

Calc 3 and differential equations for pure math, but I've also had to do Gaussian integrals, Fourier transforms, PDEs, Fourier series, the various polynomials, and lots of Hilbert space stuff.

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Shadow Don posted...

I've taken a lot of graduate level stuff.

Real Analysis and Partial Differential Equations stood out to me as the most difficult. Topology and Abstract Algebra are up there too.

I took abstract algebra undergrad.

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Multiplication.

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Some advanced trigonometry class, which was the class you take right before any calculus class, atleast in my high school back in the day.

Got a D in it and kind of lolnoped at the idea of doing a calculus class. (That and I think getting a D meant you couldn't progress to calc anyways, but it's been so long I forget.)

teep_ posted...

That's graduate stuff? As an engineering undergrad, half of my third semester mathematics course was PDEs

Right. Engineering and Physics students get exposed to PDEs. I mean you have to learn some of the basics in order to do EM or QM because the Maxwell Equations and the Schrodinger equation are obviously PDEs. Usually they will also take a few semesters of something called Applied Mathematics for Engineers/Physicists or Mathematical Physics where you probably learn some more linear algebra, fourier analysis and PDEs.

That's not really the same as a math PhD student taking a graduate level PDE class so as to prepare for their qualifying exams on the subject.

Just like there are different levels of difficulty for a subject like Electromagnetism. Undergrad students typically learn from David Griffiths text "Introduction to Electrodynamics" and graduate students will use "Classical Electrodynamics" by Jackson. The later is a significantly more difficult book.

Cuticrusader09 posted...

I took abstract algebra undergrad.

It is taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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AP stats in high school. It's been 15 years since I've had a math class. Used to really enjoy math too.

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P. sure it was Algebra 2 in high school - the Physics class I took from what I remember triple hatted as an AP course plus science plus math.

In college I've only taken Statistics so far. I have to take a few higher level ones for my major we'll see how that goes.

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Calc 1
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So over here, there's only a single "maths" subject up to and including the second-to-last year of high school. In the last year, it splits into statistics and calculus classes, I did both, but didn't take any maths papers at post-high-school level.

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did a bunch of math classes for my engineering degree, can't remember most of it.

i guess pre calculus because when i got to college and did regular calculus AB i think it was called i failed it

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As far as pure math, only Calc 1. But for my meteorology degree, I took a lot of applied science courses such as thermodynamics and linear modeling for weather forecasts that involved advanced math.

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trigonometry

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complex analysis I guess. it was the only senior level math course I had to take. differential equations was junior level I think

I don't remember if linear algebra was Jr or Sr

I think QM was harder than any of the pure math classes I took though

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Algebra 1 and a bit of trigonometry.

I have a GED, but I really don't like math, because it's such an overrated slog. :(

Like, my brain is actually super logical, so I know I'd be more adept than this if I actually applied myself, but when post-university job prospects in the United States are so theoretical and I can hardly maintain a job anyway, I'd just rather do something that I feel is more productive with my time.

Math is learnable, but it takes way too fucking long; things become seriously problematic when you realize that you can't bullshit your way through it like you can, say, a history class or something. Every subsequent concept builds upon a preceding one, and that just seems way too annoying considering how immensely vast and complex the topic actually is.

It's also obnoxious when you're systematically writing down one problem on one or more pages, only to find out you fucked up a step somewhere down the line.

Math apologists are annoying when they say or imply that math is for everyone. It's not.

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