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wanderer
United States641 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:00 Turbovolver wrote: Seriously staring at PDEs you can't solve analytically while spending all your time making MATLAB code = real maths actually they're called physics doctoral candidates, from what i've heard | ||
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Turbovolver
Australia2451 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:12 wanderer wrote: actually they're called physics doctoral candidates, from what i've heard No there is this thing called applied mathematics and it's not always (or in fact particularly often) physics. | ||
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
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wanderer
United States641 Posts
ps -- if it makes me look cooler then yes it is | ||
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:29 wanderer wrote: Sorry =( I'm ignorant of that stuff ps -- if it makes me look cooler then yes it is im talking about that guitar that you have right there | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:15 Turbovolver wrote: No there is this thing called applied mathematics and it's not always (or in fact particularly often) physics. Applied math isn't math. Once you know a PDE has a solution, you're wasting your time if you try to find one. | ||
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DefMatrixUltra
Canada1992 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:16 Caller wrote: is that a les paul in the back ground Not even close. It's classical guitar. Wood hollow-body using nylon strings. Look at the location of the tuners, the high action of the strings, the shape of the body. A Les Paul is an electric solid-body. Nickel strings with low action. | ||
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iSTime
1579 Posts
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
On June 05 2010 10:29 PJA wrote: Why won't you be able to afford grad school? PhD programs pay you to be a grad student. I asked the same question. I am guessing he has his reasons. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
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Kwidowmaker
Canada978 Posts
On June 05 2010 10:29 PJA wrote: Why won't you be able to afford grad school? PhD programs pay you to be a grad student. Not all schools pay their doctoral students. I know mine does (I was quite shocked when I found out "wait, you get paid to learn math???"), but I've also heard of schools not paying, barely paying, or even charging for the programme. I'd be surprised if this was ever the case with math though, but I could understand it if the school had a small department with little funding | ||
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Turbovolver
Australia2451 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:43 igotmyown wrote: Applied math isn't math. Once you know a PDE has a solution, you're wasting your time if you try to find one. Yeah who wants to find solutions to PDEs? That would never be useful ever. wtfffff? @OP: Sorry I said pure maths sucks. It's still maths, it can't be all bad =p gl with it all | ||
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wanderer
United States641 Posts
"I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_H_Hardy | ||
Empyrean
17082 Posts
On June 05 2010 07:40 ]343[ wrote: mm you want to be an algebraist? pretty cool... or are you still trying to learn general stuff [i guess that's what the topology + analysis books are there for lol.] i have a friend who's pretty beastly at algebraic geometry / representation theory, and he's only a rising undergraduate freshman... http://amathew.wordpress.com is his blog. he's ridiculous @_@ also wow < $10 seems really cheap for math books!?? No one else has commented on this kid's blog? If he's an undergraduate freshman, that's insane :/ | ||
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zrules
United States88 Posts
On June 05 2010 07:47 illu wrote: And books ARE free. I get most of my books in the library. I constantly have 10+ books checked out and stocked on my shelf... I can renew my books three times, which translates to about 6 months. Um no... in the U.S. my friend had to pay $150 for a single Spanish class book... my college books are going to total $150 dollars. And I don't think the libraries here have any of those types of textbooks in stock... and the big thing concerning textbooks (at least to the university I'm going to) is that only honor students can keep books out for a semester, everyone else has something like 3 weeks with I think maybe one renewal. Though if you are going to a U.S. university it might be because your going to one that is in a more liberal state than Arizona >.<. | ||
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
On June 05 2010 13:11 zrules wrote: Um no... in the U.S. my friend had to pay $150 for a single Spanish class book... my college books are going to total $150 dollars. And I don't think the libraries here have any of those types of textbooks in stock... and the big thing concerning textbooks (at least to the university I'm going to) is that only honor students can keep books out for a semester, everyone else has something like 3 weeks with I think maybe one renewal. Though if you are going to a U.S. university it might be because your going to one that is in a more liberal state than Arizona >.<. Of course, if I need a textbook for a first year course, there are no ways around it (have to spend anywhere from 50 to 200 for each book). But for graduate level math texts, library is sufficient.... well, at University of Toronto anyways. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
On June 05 2010 12:57 Empyrean wrote: No one else has commented on this kid's blog? If he's an undergraduate freshman, that's insane :/ wtf, that is INSANE O_O | ||
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wanderer
United States641 Posts
http://abebooks.com I was in college for 3.5 years and every semester I never spent more than $130 on books (that maximum number was only at the end because advanced mathematical textbooks are a bit harder to come by than introductory level shit). The average I spent on books every semester, when you look at all of them, would probably be like $20. Here's proof: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1364/proof1k.png) fyi that $43 textbook that I bought up there was just unlucky that I had to buy it because they switched from the book I used in calculus 1 and 2 to a different one for when I took calculus 3... so I wouldn't pay attention to it because it was an unlucky anomoly) ![[image loading]](http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7508/proof2u.png) As a side note, its always a good idea to look for an earlier edition of your class books for shit where you won't have to do homework (its always a good idea to e-mail the professor to make sure... but for social science classes, you can most surely get away with an older edition, which is guaranteed to be like $1) My entire bookshelf is filled with books that costed like $1 a piece. I'll try to take a picture and post it here for you guys... edit: Here is my bookshelf -- I have others strewn across other parts of the room, but this is the majority of my collection: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5302/sany0110.jpg) | ||
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XFire
United States131 Posts
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Pathos
United States94 Posts
On June 05 2010 09:43 igotmyown wrote: Applied math isn't math. Once you know a PDE has a solution, you're wasting your time if you try to find one. "Macho posturing is one of the worst things about undergraduate studies in mathematics. In math, there's always somebody who's better, faster, more technically powerful than you;" -- http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ellenber/ | ||
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