For those who have studied mathematics

[chezlaw]

What was the most difficult course that you took as an undergraduate?

Analysis II


What was the most beautiful course that you took as an undergraduate?

Algebra II


Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

Yes

[MCS]

Can we count graduate-level courses if we took them as an undergrad?

If yes, my answers are:
Graduate analysis
Advanced abstract algebra
No

If no, my answers are:
Analysis II
Intro to abstract algebra
No

Most difficult course: Multivariate Statistics. Sheer mind numbing BS.

Most beautiful: Advanced Complex Analysis

The most amazing thing I ever discovered in math was that = -1

[well]

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The most amazing thing I ever discovered in math was that = -1

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Haha, nice one!

[BigSoonerFan]

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What was the most difficult course that you took as an undergraduate?

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Can't remember the name of it, but it was all theory. Bored the crap out of me. I wasn't interested in proving that 2+2=4.

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<What was the most beautiful course that you took as an undergraduate?

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None were beautiful, but all fit perfectly with my brain. My favorite class was the one MBA class I took in quantitative analysis. I aced the class as all of my business degreed friends struggled for Cs.

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Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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No, but that was 15 years ago.

[BillC]

Most difficult and most beautiful:

abstract algebra

I am a practicing algebraist now, for 20 yrs. But I like probability too.

[sweetjazz]

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My first semester of abstract algebra. The professor assigned really challenging problem sets and graded them carefully. He is an awesome professor and I loved his course. BTW, abstract algebra is awesome. So are number theory and algebraic geometry.

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What was the most beautiful course that you took as an undergraduate?

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It might have been abstract algebra. It might have been complex analysis. It might have been number theory.

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Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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Yeah it's an awesome field to study. Take Cauchy's Theorem (or I guess strictly speaking it's corollary) that the value of an analytic function can be determined by doing a line integral of a path that passes nowhere near the point in question. Knowing the values of an entire function on, say a disk of arbitrary radius R (centered for simplicity at the origin), we can recover the value of the function at any point whose radius from the origin is less than or equal to R. That's deep, man.

Jason, are you a math lover? I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] math geeks.

[jason_t]

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Jason, are you a math lover? I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] math geeks.

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I am. I'm currently writing a PhD on some problems in complex analysis. I'll return to my reasons for posting this thread later.

[sweetjazz]

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Jason, are you a math lover? I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] math geeks.

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I am. I'm currently writing a PhD on some problems in complex analysis. I'll return to my reasons for posting this thread later.

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I finished my PhD last year (how I did despite playing too much poker is beyond me) in Diophantine geometry. Why didn't we study game theory?

Are you going to be at the joint meetings in San Antonio this January??

EDIT: Do you have much interaction with Tom Ferguson and have you discussed poker with him?

I only took Calc second year.

i found it quite challenging, but often beautiful.

at the end of the course we derived E=MC2 from a maclurian series.

it was cool.

FACT: i got into college on a physics program, and never took a physics class.