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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
You can learn discrete at the very beginning. That's the beauty of it. It's so simple yet so difficult at the same time. Same with number theory.
Fuck yea! Bring it on~
one of instructers in CC in adv algbebra class decided everyone should learn up to partial differentials, when they barely touched on adv alg subject. terrible teacher, did he forgot the class he was teacher, or he was using subterfuge to get rid of large part of the class to make it easier on himself.
mathematical insight is a bit like hyperbolic space. the further out you go, there more stuff there just is.
or in other words, if it's a tree datastructure, the only special point is the point right at the origin. that's why, if you want to be special, you gotta stay there: don't learn mathematics at all.
wait, is the fact i hadn't studied linear algebra and multivariate calculus in high school why i wasn't understanding electromagnetism, and when i understood them enough to teach them in college suddenly electromagnetism clicked?
it was really stupid. I kept forgetting which finger went where on the right hand rule (i have it now, thanks) and then i couldn't make the math work. every other godsdamned thing in the physics text made intuitive sense but that.
I miss college
Stuck at thermodynamics and can't even see statistical mechanics at the top of the hill...
The 0st law of thermodynamics is : You don't pass on your first try
Cryptography is a weird include. Everything else is general knowledge but cryptography is a branch off of math. And the math behind it Algebra level: like elliptic curves.
There’s “for engineers” listed on there. This isn’t someone taking intellectually challenging and rigorous math courses. It’s training for trademanship. So, it makes sense that it wouldn’t make sense.
You're gonna wanna zoom out a lot, this is like undergrad up to junior year
That hill is way too straight. It's definitely an increasing slope for a bit there. Starting about where they are, electricity and magnetism
Electricity and magnetism got me to change my major from physics to mechanical engineering. I thought I loved physics. Turns out when it's a bunch of pixie bullshit that I can't feel or see, I don't like it so much. Vibrations is the E&M of Newtonian mechanics though. Had to take that one twice.
Fucking magnets, how do they work!
It might be better to do PDE’s before thermo and electromagnetism
Al this to work later in the job with an Excel accountant table.
This feels like a Computer Engineer course outline
I was about to say, looks like my CS courses, apart from Thermo and Topology. I didnt actually take crypto, but it was an elective, I believe.
it's kind of funny how many of the soft sciences are learning all these same mathematics.
Computer science is not a soft science. Soft sciences are qualitative studies, often on human behavior, like psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc. Computer science is generally considered a hard science. I mean I don't apply my degree in any sort of hard scientific manner. I went for engineering instead. But actual computer science is a formal science.
dude i took economics. topped out on, uh, on this meme cryptography since game theory isn't here. you're preaching to the choir here.
My CS didn’t have to do physics, or calculus III, or multivar. iirc.
I'm pretty bitter about both in my case.
I took AP calculus, biology, and physics in high school and got full credit for each. Went to Purdue and already had my science req covered and got to enter straight into calc II, (I also took discrete math later which will be relevant).
Long story short, 2 years and money problems later, I dropped out and worked for 8 years. When I finally went back to school, I went to Ivy Tech and basically had to restart from scratch. Literally the only credit they honored from Purdue was my Abnormal Psych elective course. And they also honored my Calc AP. So I had to retake Calc II, and Physics I and II. Also discrete math for no apparent reason as nothing was different about it. They didn't honor the calc II course because their calc I was more like Calc 1.5, and calc II was more like Calc 2.5. So basically my AP calc and calc II together only covered their calc I class. They didn't honor the Physics AP credits because it wasnt calc-based even though after taking it, that only led to a meaningful difference for like one chapter.
So, I didnt really mind taking the courses again from an academic sense. It was nice to have a refresher for calc II before taking calc III later. And I love Physics in general. But they didn't offer physics on my local campus on the semester I needed it because I started in the spring but it was also a prerequisite for all of my higher level core courses. If I waited to take them on that campus, it would push back my graduation by a year.
So, I had to sign up for them at another campus that was 70(!!!) miles away. For two semesters straight, I had to drive my happy ass 90 minutes to class, for 2 hours of lecture and 3 hours of labs, back to back, and then drive the 90 minutes back home again. Twice a week. 16 hours of commute, lecture and lab a week for a course that was almost identical to what I had already studied, and ultimately had zero bearing on my actual degree.
What makes it worse? After finishing my Associates at Ivy Tech, I went to Northern Kentucky University to complete my Bachelor's. And they honored almost everything. All my AP classes. Almost all my Purdue Credits. And almost all my Ivy Tech Credits. So, I had retaken Calc II and Physics I and II for no damn reason in the end. I did enter NKU with my math minor almost complete at least though. I only had to take 3 more math classes for it, 2 of which were already required for my Core CS classes anyway.
But the one class they didn't honor? From either Purdue or Ivy Tech? Discrete Math. No idea why. I took that shit for a third goddamn time, and it was the same damn shit as before. sigh. Y'all wanna talk about the Seven Bridges of Königsberg?
A lot of that is such bullshit for whatever reason I don’t even know why. I went back to do my masters. They didn’t credit me for an algorithms and data structures class I had taken like 20 years before. So they made me take the undergrad algorithm class as a prerequisite for the masters level algo class. I was getting straight A’s. A 4.0 in postgrad. (Later would get an A in that postgrad algorithm class) But this dickhead dumbass professor, who couldn’t teach undergrad algorithms for shit, gave me a B in that class, which totally fucked my 4.0 gpa. Fuck that guy. And fuck the advisor who required me to take that undergrad class. It’s all such bullshit.
Dude that sucks. I'd be pissed.
It's true because the moment you disengage from math you are back at a level of a middle schooler.
I was happy until Fourier Transforms showed up.....
Thermodynamics and partial diferentials fucked me up so bad I gave up studying physics. I just could not pass
I remember some of those classes…
Also fine to stop if you know everything you need to know 😀
I am not good at maths, the only one here I recognjse is discrete maths. A term I have not heard of since I dropped out of the course that had it as a module in semester one.
Loved diffeq. Hated diffeq.
That's absurd