Fall 2016 school thread science related

>I like literature.

Hope you like unemployment. There's plenty of math majors out there who are more concerned with studying actual mathematics than 5 different languages.

You're an idiot. Seriously, if you think that being a polyglot and being qualified in mathematics isn't a very, very lucrative combination, you're just plain retarded.

>Seriously, if you think that being a polyglot and being qualified in mathematics isn't a very, very lucrative combination, you're just plain retarded.

Bruh, languages are lucrative in service and business-oriented industries. Your field of choice works in offices amongst colleagues who all speak the same language.

You are majoring in mathematics and are only taking one mathematics class? I call bullshit on that.

Either that or you found the absolute shittiest university in the entire universe.

You didn't respond to my message so I'll reiterate.

College and professional life isn't like high school. You are not really rewarded for being 'well-rounded'. What grad schools care about are your research, your relationship with your professors, and your GPA. Only the latter of those three is bolstered by loading up on language courses, and it won't make up for the other two.

Fall classes haven't started. Go un-fuck your course selections.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I didn't respond because your worldview is so stunted you can't even begin to imagine the plethora of situations where it is advantageous to speak multiple languages while being a mathematician, and I'm not even the guy taking that schedule.

I can only assume that you're in grad school or possibly in a first job at most because I cannot possibly see how anyone can be as ignorant to the world as you and have significant experience.

Langlands knows four languages senpai.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langlands#Personal_life

>wah, you're ignorant

Tell me more about how your romance languages have led you to success in the field of mathematics.

If you are fluent in English and French then you can probably read 99% of mathematical papers.

>Langlands knows four languages senpai.

And Bernhard Riemann trimmed his beard at least six times a day. Mathematics is a game won by languages and beard hair.

My bad, all math ever just takes place in English and there's no such thing as multinational corporations or institutions. You're right, it's literally never advantageous to be able to speak with people who speak another language.

Reading papers != working with, interacting with, leading teams.

>My bad, all math ever just takes place in English and there's no such thing as multinational corporations or institutions.

You're shifting the goalposts here. Languages are great, but eschewing classes related to your career in favor of extra languages is a bad idea.

That isn't moving goalposts at all you retard.

>eschewing classes related to your career
What. The. Fuck. You aren't even in college are you? Most undergrad degrees require 120 credit hours. To get a math major at most schools, you have to do around 30-35 credit hours, minimum. You usually have around 50 hours of general education requirements (varies greatly), so there's still around 40 credit hours to dick around with, and that's assuming you're taking a fairly light load. It's not that difficult to graduate with 180+ credit hours of classes if you don't have to work or aren't doing a bunch of extra curricular stuff.

Nothing is being "eschewed".

>That isn't moving goalposts at all you retard.

Yes it is. What we were originally talking about was the fact that OP basically avoided taking any classes related to his career and instead opted for shitloads of language classes. You shifted the goalposts to talking about whether languages are valuable to learn, which was never in dispute to begin with.

>Most undergrad degrees require 120 credit hours. To get a math major at most schools, you have to do around 30-35 credit hours, minimum.

Indeed, and look at the proportions of the classes that he's taking here.

posting on Veeky Forums while going to college is pure fedora

>Hope you like unemployment.
That sure sounds like claiming language isn't valuable to learn.
Then, my immediate reply, and first in this thread:
>You're an idiot. Seriously, if you think that being a polyglot and being qualified in mathematics isn't a very, very lucrative combination, you're just plain retarded.
And then the ensuing reply thread is ABOUT VALUE.

Friend, you need to take English.

>That sure sounds like claiming language isn't valuable to learn.

Look at it conversely. If you're planning to work for the UN as a translator and have spent the past several years predominantly studying mathematics, you're going to have serious difficulty breaking into that field. Does that mean mathematics is not valuable to learn? Of course not.

Smart people in academia speak English

You're aware you can take different things in different semesters, right?

Like in my first year of college I only took one class in each of my majors. I front loaded all of my general ed stuff to get it out of the way so I could spend the rest of the time working on what I wanted to learn there. You'd literally have no clue what I was majoring in if you saw my classes then and it hasn't hurt me one bit. Amusingly, my final semester only had one class from one of my majors as well. Each semester isn't necessarily representative of the entire CV.

>You're aware you can take different things in different semesters, right?

Totally, but I get the feeling that OP isn't looking at this strategically. His choice of classes is motivated by this:
>I like literature.

Its his first term. Calculus is the pre-req for most of the classes he would take.

>I_have_never_taken_college_level_STEM.webm
That shit that Pakis/Indians/Japs/Chinese speak is not remotely English.

Calc I is only the pre-req for the calculus and analysis track. (Though lets be honest, this faggot is not getting a BSc in math, he is getting a fucking BA so he will be lucky if he even learns how to integrate polynomials by his senior year)

If you are not picking at least 3 mathematics classes per semester then you are clearly not training yourself to be and think like a mathematician. And it is fucking calc for fucks sake, why not other fundamental course like set theory or geometry that is much more proof based than calculus.

But as I said, he is probably getting a BA not a BSc so who gives a fuck, he'll be serving us our burgers soon.

Differential Equations
Chemistry 1
Additional Topics in Vector Calculus
History of WWII and the Holocaust
English Composition 2

Hopefully in January I'll be transferring out of community college and back into a real school.

I was CS major.
Switched to math after a year.
Switched to neuro after a year of math.
Been neuro for a year.
Time to switch?

>dubs decides

Nice meme, friendo.
Drop three of the four non-English language classes and take another math class, along with Physics 1 or the introductory CS programming class..

>I'm bored and I don't know what to do besides read the bible
The bible is cuck shit. Read the holy qur'an.

dubs for psych

my undergrad was 3 years (Quebec, Canada), so 90 credits, and my program was 75 credits minimum (Joint Honours Math/CS), with it being STRONGLY suggested to fill the rest of them with courses in your field(or a 6 credit large research project/thesis). Not everyone has a watered-down curriculum like you, kiddo.

>Takes Russian test
>accidently writes in a Spanish-German mix

Good lucky buddy

those are strange subjects for a math major.

Nailed it

This board is so full of children
>"I like something other than engineering"
>gee I hope you like unemployment because nobody is going to hire anyone but an engineer to do anything

More like
>I like flipping burgers
>Enjoy flipping burgers

Thats too many languages at once dude.

Russian alone, german alone or french and spanish together, thats fine. But 4 at once, you wont be getting straight As to say the least

Is 25 too late to go to University to strive to become a Scientist or otherwise a scholar?

Not really interested in becoming some grunt engineer for your average company.

It's not too late, but it's harder. You either have to be pretty gifted or would be better off applying it in industry.
Witten started at 22
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten

Starting math in fall taking
>undergrad analysis 1
>intro to mathematics
>Linear algebra 1 & 2
>Intro to statistics
>Intro to logic (propositional and predicate logic)

Thats about 50 ects, I don't know if this is a great idea

Well I mean I have a 139 IQ. I'm probably wasting it on trying to become a freelance artist even though I'm already earning 40k/year which is supposedly quite decent for the trade.

- EE team project
- Multi variable calculus
- Lin. algebra for engineers
- Procedural programming
- Logical circuits

>Lin. algebra for engineers

>mfw engineers are so bad at math they need a specialised course to manipulative [math]y = mx+b[/math]
JUST

Not the same dude but i'm learning english and my mother language is spanish would it be a waste if i learn german/italian/french/portuguese?

Do you want to learn one of those languages? It's hardly a waste of time to learn things that interest you.

do you even know what an eigenvalue is?

Italian and german are pretty interesting, and i have no goals in life, maybe traveling if it counts.

>2016
>not using standard form of the line
>ISHYGDDT

>y=mx+b
>easily see slope
>easily see y-intercept
>easy to graph

>(y-y0) = m(x-x0)
>easily see slope
>easily see a sample point on the line
>easy to graph

>Ax + By = C
>???????????????

Ax+By-C=0 Is more useful if you want to talk in the language of affine schemes or any kind of algebraic geometry really.

Excuse me sir, what the heck are you two talking about?
(I don't know nothing about science or maths)

hmm, I haven't gotten to algebraic geometry yet. still, I see no reason why we should force middle schoolers to mindlessly convert between the 3 forms.

>eigenvalues are hard
nigger i bet even the /x/ crosspostets could derive the fucking characteristic eqn for you

b8

just taking two classes.

differential equations and complex analysis.

>but perhaps there is another thing I may do.

There is indeed!

I would also scrap learning 4 languages if I were you. It's hopeless, even if you are a very smart kid. Learn one language and learn it well.

or even better: Instead of taking Calculus, take Analysis I and Linear Algebra I - that's what degrees in Europe do.

This many people fell for the bait. OP couldn't possibly be retarded enough to take 4 languages at once... r-right?

>taking analysis before calculus
what is going on in euroland

Deliver user

kids have all sorts of delusions

it's alright.

Calculus in high school is what's going on in euroland.

Analysis is (rigorous) Calculus.

Baby Rudin is entirely constructive (= no prerequisite knowledge).

Tbh, having Calculus in a maths degree seems pretty pointless to me.

>Calculus in a maths degree seems pretty pointless to me.
You heard it here first folks

okay but clearly OP has not taken calculus yet

I know what analysis is. While true, that is ridiculous and the fastest way to make people drop out of math. Plus, most freshmen just don't have the mathematical maturity to start with analysis.

>Hey guys I'm in 6th grade geometry, I'm having trouble with compass and straightedge drawings, can I get some help?
>Start with Principia Mathematica, rederive basic set theory and ZFC, making a brief foray into category theory, then go back and construct the naturals and integers with PA. You remembered to prove the Lowenhem-Skolem before you used quantifiers in any of these proofs right? Okay so then take analysis and learn about the Dedekind cut construction of the reals, and might as well throw in some computability theory for fun. Then you can get to a basic linear algebra course and start reading D&F. Make your way into field theory and Galois theory, but don't stop just there. You're also going to need some basic commutative algebra, module theory, algebraic varieties, and scheme theory (you'll need to learn french for this part hahahaa).
>Then your compass and straightedge proofs will be easy

>mathematical maturity

what does this even mean...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity

I don't know of it's the reading what you want in a post, the complete avoidance of specificity, or the "my bad" and "literally" but this post reeks of a kid who's in for a reality check.

you faggots

Lol you got dubs.
That means you can choose whatever major you truly want user