For those who have studied mathematics

[jason_t]

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

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

Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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

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Algebra was tough the first time I took it as an undergraduate.

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

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Hmmmm... topology was a revelation.

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Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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Yes.

Currently, my multivariable calculus class is the hardest I have taken.

The most beautiful would have to be Calc 1 and 2, when dealing with limits, derivatives and integrals. I loved how we could describe falling bodies using math, or show the rate at which water poured from a cone, ex.

[quinn]

Hmm, haven't taken all that much yet..

Most difficult was..by far..Matrix Algebra.

Most interesting was definitely Intro to Differential Equations, except at the University of Washington, there are two versions of this class. There's the Math department one and there's the Applied Math department one. Most people hate the math department diff. eqns. I took the Amath one and it was outstanding..I attribute most of the credit to my professor, Peter Schmid. I think he teaches in France now.

[gumpzilla]

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

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Probably knot theory.

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

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I liked algebra quite a bit. Topology was fun, too.

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Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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Yes.

[Borodog]

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

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

Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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The most difficult math course I took as an undergraduate was a partial diff eq class, but that was probably because it was a graduate level course that I took when I was a junior. It almost blew my head off, but I passed. It was also the most "beautiful" math course I took as an undergrad.

Thankfully my Ph.D. is in physics, so a complex analysis course was never required.

What field do you work in?

[Borodog]

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What field do you work in?

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Currently, poker and real estate.

But my research was in astrophysics, specifically time dependent multi-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulations of accretion disks around neutron stars and black holes in binary star systems, on various vector and parallel supercomputing platforms.

I was a professor for a while, and then an instructor at a state magnet school for science and mathematics, but I really couldn't stomach the fact that I was making my living off of the taxpayer's back. Over the past 5 years my politics have drifter farther and farther libertarian, until the point that I'm now a full fledged anarchocapitalist. I simply can't accept that it is right for the government to take money from someone who could have used it to send their kid to a better school, take their family on a vacation, buy a boat, or hire a hooker, so that I can sit around and play on supercomputers. It was evil so I quit.

But I'm hijacking jason_t's thread.

Thats interesting, because I have a friend who is a physics major (I am also) and is thinking about dropping out for real estate. I also have a friend who is a nursing major (hehe) and is planning to pursue a real estate career as well. Personally Ill stick to stocks [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] or try to at least.

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

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Differential Geometery

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

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Math Logic course that covered Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.

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Did you take complex analysis as an undergraduate?

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No, but I wish I did.