I dislike calculus/analysis. Can I still get to do research in math?

GLOBALTRAVELER
Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:15:13 +0000

Yes, there are many areas in Math for research that is not “analysis/real analysis-based”…BUT…there is just about NO chance you will avoid Analysis. Even the B.A.-version of Math degrees may give you an option to take Abstract Algebra and maybe an option of 2nd-semester Analysis but YOU HAVE to take at least one semester of Analysis. Even many graduate Applied Math program will make you take minimum one semester of graduate analysis.

My B.S. degree is in Computational Mathematics (a hybrid Math/CS degree) and I still had to take Advanced Calculus (which was my school’s “lighter-version of Real Analysis”).

Cannot escape it.