Is it really this easy to get into a UC as a pure math major?

JetForcegeminix
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:34:04 +0000

in an undergraduate math program you will quickly see that there may be limits to your abilities. However, at this level, many of these issues can be fixed through hard work and work ethic. A proof based math course is something that surprises many new math students and causes many to doubt their abilities. Many give up early or don’t find the time commitment to be worthwhile and drop out of the major.

If you don’t understand the concepts then you’ll need to find a way to make yourself understand . In the math department, if you can’t prove a theorem or a concept, then you don’t understand it. Sometimes this gets very frustrating because you’re asked something that seems obvious but its hard for you to explain it and it makes you realize you don’t actually know why its true because it is merely intuitively true. for example, do you understand why every polynomial (with coefficients in the reals) is continuous? It seems very intuitive since polynomials are smooth curves but its a slightly more difficult task to state concretely why.