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So what is the highest mathematics class you have taken or are taking(assuming its your last one), most premeds I know are horrible at math, I was just interested in seeing how good ya'll are at math.
 
Calc 3. Yay for BC AP exam.
 
dapmp91 said:
So what is the highest mathematics class you have taken or are taking(assuming its your last one), most premeds I know are horrible at math, I was just interested in seeing how good ya'll are at math.
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Calculus II. What's the point of upper level math if you aren't a math major?
 
dapmp91 said:
So what is the highest mathematics class you have taken or are taking(assuming its your last one), most premeds I know are horrible at math, I was just interested in seeing how good ya'll are at math.
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calculus....required for the major. I'm going to put it off till senior year. I hate math!!🙁
 
foofish said:
....or, say, physics...
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I don't want to even think about a physics course that requires anything above calculus I or II. :laugh: *shudders*

I'll probably take calc I, but I can guarantee that my physics courses will be algebra based.
 
Calc III (Multivariable calc)
or
Linear Algebra w/ diff equations
 
multivariable calculus (calcIII)
Required for Chemistry major (also for engineering, physics majors).

Calculus, even upper level calculus is really interesting and calcIII can be a fun course even.
 
I guess it would be algebraic structures or real analysis II...but I'm a math major
 
the required undergrad math classes=😴 you learn much more interesting math doing independent studies. I studied crap like

mathematical logic & computability theory (1st order, 2nd order logic, modal logic, deriving godel's theorems, chuch turing thesis, etc.)

i also studied hilbert spaces and lie algebra each 1 semester.


i'd say algebra and math logic are definitely my most fav. branches of math to study. any form of analysis=😴 Even though i did well in number theory i really really really hated that class too.
 
Math 250- Differenial Equations/Calc 3
Math 640- Numerical Methods

Man, these two were beasts. Yay mechanical engineering!
 
Math is a piece of cake for me. I don't know why....is it because i'm Korean?

P.S: Physics too. But I suck at English, Music, Arts, and some of social studies.
 
Ordinary Differential Equations...but then again I'm a chemical engineering major...and i hate math sooooooooo much.
that's why i'm changing careers
 
Linear Algebra
Ordinary Differential Eq's
They're required for graduation at my institution.
 
projective geometry
stochastic processes
graduate real analysis

math major
 
Aced all three classes and no I am not an engineer. No photos of the Star Ship Enterprise on my wall. I concede, however, that Captain Kirk is pretty cool. I am pleased to report that I did not attend Rice. Save the Polar Bears!
 
SuperHiro said:
Calculus II. What's the point of upper level math if you aren't a math major?
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overachievement? for fun? no reason?

I'm a molecular biology major but I'm taking linear algebra now 🙂
 
xucardsfan08 said:
multivariable calculus (calcIII)
Required for Chemistry major (also for engineering, physics majors).

Calculus, even upper level calculus is really interesting and calcIII can be a fun course even.
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Calculus 3 was a fun class 😀
 
Calculus II for Scientists and Engineers; Statistics.
Hated Calc II! I never used it. I didn't learn a single thing in that class my TI89 wasn't able to do. I've heard Calc III was much better/more fun/interesting.
 
Short course in Calculus (Calc I and II in the same semester, but abbreviated)
Probability and Statistics I
 
Calc III
Ordinary Diff Eq
Linear Algebra
 
I'm jealous of everybody that didn't hit multi-variable calc until calc III. At my school, we got nailed with it in calc II.

The highest I took was calc IV, which was PDEs, Fourier series, Sturm-Louisville junk, and helping of complex analysis just to make things fun. Advanced linear algebra had a higher course designation at my school, but calc IV was definitely the higher course.

For all those wondering about the utility of higher level math, please explain how to use the differential equations required by fluid mechanics (ie: Navier-Stokes) without an understanding of math basics? I don't think every doctor should go through a ton of math and engineering, but it helps when we think about problems that will be at the forefront of medicine. Instead of just knowing how much blood is squirting through a mitral valve, knowing how it is squirting can certainly be useful when designing an artificial replacement. Just my two cents...
 
I took:
- a YEAR of real analysis (gamma fine tagged divisions of Riemann spaces, 1-metrics, let epsilon be greater than zero but not by much, whee)
- combinatorics and game theory
- theory of numbers, theory of equations, theory of theory
- modeling
- history of math (ask me where quarks were discovered. no don't, I don't remember)
- all the calculus
- all the linear algebra
- way, way, way too much statistics
- way, way, way too much computer science

Too much math. But I seem to be the only one in my undergrad labs who can do dilution calcs without getting a headache.
 
Functions, Statistics and Trigonometry back in High School.
 
Calculus 1, 2, and 3 in college
 
Introduction to Topology, Numerical Analysis, Advanced Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, Complex Variables - Pick your poison, tho topology was byfar the hardest.

(math chem double)
 
green453 said:
I'm jealous of everybody that didn't hit multi-variable calc until calc III. At my school, we got nailed with it in calc II.

The highest I took was calc IV, which was PDEs, Fourier series, Sturm-Louisville junk, and helping of complex analysis just to make things fun. Advanced linear algebra had a higher course designation at my school, but calc IV was definitely the higher course.

For all those wondering about the utility of higher level math, please explain how to use the differential equations required by fluid mechanics (ie: Navier-Stokes) without an understanding of math basics? I don't think every doctor should go through a ton of math and engineering, but it helps when we think about problems that will be at the forefront of medicine. Instead of just knowing how much blood is squirting through a mitral valve, knowing how it is squirting can certainly be useful when designing an artificial replacement. Just my two cents...
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This is giving me a headache. The polar icecaps are melting - so solve the frigging greenhouse emission problem and save the bloody polar bears.
 
searun said:
This is giving me a headache. The polar icecaps are melting - so solve the frigging greenhouse emission problem and save the bloody polar bears.
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and what would the that come down to? hmmm, probably some thermodynamic calculations on some potential sources of alternative energy other than fossil fuels (i.e. it is all math once again).

For all those wondering about the utility of higher level math, please explain how to use the differential equations required by fluid mechanics (ie: Navier-Stokes) without an understanding of math basics? I don't think every doctor should go through a ton of math and engineering, but it helps when we think about problems that will be at the forefront of medicine. Instead of just knowing how much blood is squirting through a mitral valve, knowing how it is squirting can certainly be useful when designing an artificial replacement. Just my two cents...
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That, ladies and gentleman, is why it takes books like Kaplan, Exam Krackers, etc. 30 pages a chapter to describe the phenomena of stuff like fluids, E&M, ..... With a thorough understanding of math, you can just simply condense those 30 pages into 1-2 pages of well defined variables and equations. Example: do I really need 3 pages explaining to me the right hand rule for something like the force of the magnetic field? NO. All you have to write down is F=qvxB. ONce you see the cross product it is obvious taht the force is perpendicular to the velocity and magnetic field vectors. You can throw away your right hand rule explanations away and simply write a very small equation that encompasses everything instead.
 
calc I and II here... loved both, but i heard math after clac is not much fun...
 
Does anyone else except me feel totally inept within the realm of all of these math geniuses on this forum? I have only taken Calc I and Basic Statistics. I guess that's just the bare minimum, isn't it?

Anyone else in the same boat as me?
 
Complex analysis. Picture everything you've learned in calculus.

Now re-learn it with the imaginary number realm.

Then again, I'm BME major 🙂
 
chad5871 said:
Does anyone else except me feel totally inept within the realm of all of these math geniuses on this forum? I have only taken Calc I and Basic Statistics. I guess that's just the bare minimum, isn't it?

Anyone else in the same boat as me?
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I actually never took any math at all in college. I scored very high on the math placement test at my university. My advisor contacted the registrar and waived me out of every math requirement needed for my degree.
 
chad5871 said:
Nice. How is that going to work for med school pre-reqs?
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I just didn't apply to med schools that had a math requirement. It kept me out of applying to upper tier schools but I really wasn't shooting for any of them anyway.

I despise math.

If you want to go to Harvard or Johns Hopkins... you better be good at math.
 
Navicular said:
I just didn't apply to med schools that had a math requirement. It kept me out of applying to upper tier schools but I really wasn't shooting for any of them anyway.

I despise math.

If you want to go to Harvard or Johns Hopkins... you better be good at math.
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Cool. I didn't know that some schools don't have a math requirement - I guess I just assumed that all of them did.

And I don't want to go to Harvard or JH - I'm good at math, I'm just glad it's over.
 
My major forces me to take up to Linear Algebra/Calc 3. 🙁
But Im okay at math so it dosent bug me too much.
 
I only took calc 1 and stats.
 
Discrete dynamics, Real analysis, etc...

math/chem major
 
I'm in Calc 1 for Engineers.
 
diff eq and linear algebra
...but i guess thats expected cuz i go to mit
 
calc 1 and stats.

and you don't use calc in med school, so even calc 1 was a waste of my time. 😀
 
chad5871 said:
Does anyone else except me feel totally inept within the realm of all of these math geniuses on this forum? I have only taken Calc I and Basic Statistics. I guess that's just the bare minimum, isn't it?

Anyone else in the same boat as me?
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I never even got to Calc. Pre-Calc is the highest math I took. Before that, College Algebra. No Stats either.
 
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