I haven't opened a math textbook in about 4 years. What does a typical math major cover in their undergrad degree?
Math majors
Christian Nelson
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Jacob Baker
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Very fitting.
Jayden Davis
you know you can google university's websites and look up the curriculum right?
Christopher Phillips
For any hard science major: differentiation, integration, differential equations, advanced/applied integration
If engineering, the above but also linear algebra
For anything else not a hard science but still mathematically involved (economics, accounting, pre-med, etc) only differentiation and integration.
For anything completely non-STEM, just baby math like pre-calc or lower.
Joseph Perez
there's always so many options, and i'm med school (in britain, that's no maths at all) so it's all gibberish to me
Sebastian Perry
>Med school in the UK.
You fucking retard, medicine in the UK is for poor cunts who want be an NHS bitch. Go to the US with your degree and earn much better bucks.
Aaron James
nah i'm not that bothered about the pay, i'm from a well-to-do family and the average pay for a doctor in britain is good enough.
i'm more bothered about the fact that i just prefer living in this country, probably because i grew up here more than anything
Christopher Watson
Me too, I'm impoverished aristocracy, thanks to the flagrant spending of a Victorian ancestor. I suppose that's why I'm in it for the 'beaucoup dolla'?
Joshua Hernandez
>that's no maths at all
Boy one year ago I would be extolling your system for being far less frustrating and stressful. Thank God I've matured enough to inform you that maths are actually pretty important in medicine but in a very indirect way.
Math builds your problem solving skills, it grows your ability to think in abstract and creative ways. As doctors we will use math in very unexpected ways to model the solutions to real world problems.
Without subjects like math and physics, a doctor is basically just a glorified biologist, which is actually true in many countries.
I really recommend you follow 's advice or just self-study math in your free time. It will help you in surprising ways, but don't stress yourself too much over it.
To answer your question, a math undergrad commonly begins with a precalc sequence (algebra and trigonometry) and then ascends to calculus 1, calculus 2, calculus 3, real analysis, linear algebra and possibly abstract algebra as well.
Robert Collins
>Math builds your problem solving skills, it grows your ability to think in abstract and creative ways.
Yea, that's why I'm recently quite interested, just browsing Veeky Forums for a bit got me that idea
also, abstract algebra has some direct applications to certain areas of medicine, right? Symmetries of carbon atom bonding and group theory, or something like that