Opinions on these math professors?

grapesoda
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:03:35 +0000

And please, to everyone who wants to do well in math courses (or in any other science/eng course in general). Do not abuse the discipline by memorizing the formulas and hoping that you’ll get a good grade. Learn it how math was meant to be learned. Understand and appreciate the derivations, do the toughest problems in the book so that you can understand how powerful these theorems can be.

I agree with this. I also recommend taking the same approach in Physics classes. Professors come up with so many different tricks on exams to present something that’s just different enough from what could have been memorized. It really differentiates who “gets” the material.