<p>“Jars, I know someone who knows you (his SN has Liar on the end of it). Did you only have one year of high school calculus, without prior experience in proofs?”</p>
<p>I had one year of hs calculus. It was a great class. My teacher would not necessarily rigorously prove the theorems, but we’d go through some form of a proof. Being a hs class, he couldn’t really put the whole class through a rigorous proof when the goal was to train for the AP test. But regardless, I felt like he showed me very creative things in math and I guess in a way taught me to how to think more creatively. At least after a few months of his class I found the AIME and AMC and CAMLs a lot more doable and within reach. But that’s irrelevant. So to answer your question, I had like proofs in geometry and some proofs in calculus.</p>