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02-28-2009, 11:28 AM
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| What math courses do math majors take that engineer majors don't?
Is there a major difference in math curriculum? What is more advance than differential equations?
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02-28-2009, 11:40 AM
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Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Topology, Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Analysis, etc.
Different kinds of engineers may learn some things in all of these fields, but the *way* they are studied in math is very different.
You may do a proof or two in an engineering math class, and you may do an application or two in a math math class, but you'll practice solving problems in the engineering class and practice writing proofs in the math class.
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02-28-2009, 11:51 AM
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You can just go to your university's math department website and look at the requirements, electives, and course descriptions.
I'll add an exception for Computer Science majors: the Foundations course is heavily proof-oriented.
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03-01-2009, 01:07 PM
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Can a typical engineer student bear those course loads?
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03-01-2009, 03:43 PM
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Can a typical engineer student bear those course loads?
| A typical engineering student can barely take the engineering course load...
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03-01-2009, 08:36 PM
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Is there any advantage to taking Real Analysis if you are an engineer? It sounds like a badass class but if it's really intense, and it's not gonna help at all...I'm unsure if it would be wise to take it.
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03-01-2009, 11:01 PM
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Honestly, I don't see how Real Analysis would be as helpful to an engineer as other subjects... perhaps for very advanced, research oriented things, and as a way to expand mental horizons, but as far as content is concerned... you may be better off with something else.
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03-01-2009, 11:39 PM
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I'm just curious. I had to take Complex Analysis, but have never even looked at a course description for Real Analysis. What's the difference in the sort of material you'd be covering (other than obviously the one extending into the complex plane)?
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03-02-2009, 07:14 AM
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Real analysis is useful if you get into modeling, but other than that, no it wouldn't be that useful.
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03-02-2009, 09:28 AM
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I'm just curious. I had to take Complex Analysis, but have never even looked at a course description for Real Analysis. What's the difference in the sort of material you'd be covering (other than obviously the one extending into the complex plane)?
| Real analysis is actually just normal 1d calculus but you do every proof stringently, in the normal math courses everything is very sloppily done so you basically have to start over from scratch.
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03-02-2009, 09:36 AM
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Take a look at Michael Spivak's book on Google Books.
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03-02-2009, 09:42 AM
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As a ChemE I had to take a course in PDEs.
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03-02-2009, 09:48 AM
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Ditto. PDE was required for all engineering majors in my school.
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03-02-2009, 10:02 AM
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By the way, how do you "bear" something?
"Can a typical engineer student bear those course loads? "
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03-02-2009, 11:59 AM
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By the way, how do you "bear" something?
"Can a typical engineer student bear those course loads? "
| Considering I am the foreigner you should know this, but bear do have other meanings than a type of large predatory mammals.
In the context I wrote that "bear" should be interpreted roughly as "withstand".
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