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Mathematics is really fucking cool.
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zksa
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Dingodile
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two earned bachelor and one with master in mathematics, but then in their job has nothing with mathematics thus they are teacher now in physic, informatic etc^^ (declined a job at airplane Lufthansa etc). I know a girl (from my class, she was the by far the best in mathematics) stopped mathematics after 4th semester, "Its boring, just stupid numbers". | ||
]343[
United States10328 Posts
Take some topology next! (Personally I didn't like point-set stuff thaaat much, since certain people convinced me that algebraic topology is the only nice thing out there... but it's really nice!) Also take some number theory and combinatorics classes; they're really interesting even at an introductory level @dingodile: numbers?? that ain't math  | ||
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
its pretty cool otherwise | ||
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On June 18 2014 00:18 Dingodile wrote: I heard mathematic is boring because is too monotonous. two earned bachelor and one with master in mathematics, but then in their job has nothing with mathematics thus they are teacher now in physic, informatic etc^^ (declined a job at airplane Lufthansa etc). I know a girl (from my class, she was the by far the best in mathematics) stopped mathematics after 4th semester, "Its boring, just stupid numbers". At University level most mathematics uses letters not numbers ;p | ||
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zksa
11 Posts
On June 18 2014 00:21 ]343[ wrote: <3 Take some topology next! (Personally I didn't like point-set stuff thaaat much, since certain people convinced me that algebraic topology is the only nice thing out there... but it's really nice!) Also take some number theory and combinatorics classes; they're really interesting even at an introductory level @dingodile: numbers?? that ain't math - Next year topology is one of my classes  Reading on wikipedia it certainly seems awesome :o Already took a probability/combinatorics and number theory course ^.^I heard mathematic is boring because is too monotonous. two earned bachelor and one with master in mathematics, but then in their job has nothing with mathematics thus they are teacher now in physic, informatic etc^^ (declined a job at airplane Lufthansa etc). I know a girl (from my class, she was the by far the best in mathematics) stopped mathematics after 4th semester, "Its boring, just stupid numbers". The last time I saw a number was about a year ago. Mathematics is about ideas, quantity(numbers), space, distance, chance, change, etcetera. But we don't really work with the objects themselves(numbers) we study the relationships between them. the biggest downside on doing a math class is that you have to do a math class. its pretty cool otherwise I can assure you, whatever Math class you ever took. It's has zero resemblance to the classes I mentioned in my above post. | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
I don't know, somehow i always ended up annoyed after a class without apparent reason. Maybe i should indeed follow some of them, just to see if i can appreciate them more than some time ago. @zksa: which college are you going to? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43542 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Bachelor's in math, master's in math ed., getting my PhD in math ed., and I'm a college professor of mathematics I agree with everything you said. The hard part is motivating students who aren't in a math, science, or engineering field... getting everyone else interested  | ||
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sinani206
United States1959 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
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The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
Math is very cool, but a lot of people I know seem to think it is just numbers T_T | ||
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Sox03
Germany55 Posts
Currently i'm in 1 year in in physics (the first semester we had 75% math classes (linear algebra and analysis seperately)) and i couldnt have been more surprised! I used to be pretty average-below average in i think it would be called middleschool or highschool. My father used to help me out a lot but it just sucked i mean i didnt like school math but i was all into physics and engineering. The last year i managed to get 13/15 in my math exam and i decided to just try studying physics instead of engineering because why not? I went in with the expectation that i would just fail horribly and math would bore me to death) because my university is considered rather tough... I have never been so wrong! I probably had the best math profs you can get and i can tell you (at least here) it doesnt compare to school at all! And i passed all my exams first try despite my grades in school were worse than the ones of all the people i've met here ^^ Long story short: Consider studying math or physics if youre undecided! ;D Next year i will probably take some nume)rical stuff and probably more linear algebra! (it feels really weird writing this because i used to hate it in school^^) | ||
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sOda~
United Kingdom441 Posts
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GeneralStan
United States4789 Posts
Also as an engineering/physics type, I"m going to go ahead and pass on Math classes aimed at Math majors. One thing I've noticed about the mathematician's classes is that they have to prove everything. They also focus on edge cases and boundaries and try to break their own theorems. That's all well and good, and somebody has to do it. But I view mathematics as a tool. Give me the formulae, tell me they work, and I'm more than happy to believe you | ||
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solidbebe
Netherlands4921 Posts
On June 18 2014 00:34 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: Automatic 5 stars for the title. + Show Spoiler + Bachelor's in math, master's in math ed., getting my PhD in math ed., and I'm a college professor of mathematics I agree with everything you said. The hard part is motivating students who aren't in a math, science, or engineering field... getting everyone else interested It's so cool that we have so many kinds of talented people on TL. I already knew you were a college professor but just reading it again is awesome! TL is awesome | ||
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lantz
United States762 Posts
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Poo
Canada536 Posts
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y0su
Finland7871 Posts
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PassionFruit
294 Posts
And people who say math is just a bunch of numbers are doing nothing more than stating their utmost ignorance of the subject. That's arithmetic, not mathematics. | ||
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
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