daaaaamn, student goes off on teacher| was he right or wrong?

[baseline bum]

http://utsa.edu/ucat/COE/
So I checked the engineering requirements at good ole' UTSA and the only required math is through calc 2, they don't require any additional math

When you posted this doubting a math minor has taken as much math as a UTSA engineering major only required to take calc 1 and 2, what exactly did you think the requirements are for math minors? Did you think taking college algebrah was enough to make someone a math minor

OMFG

[Ricky Davis]

Not bad, actually. Honest question though if youre good at math and enjoy it why didnt you pursue a badass engineering degree like me, bro ?

dis

[baseline bum]

That really ing blows. I mean multivariable is maybe the most important math class an undergrad non-major can take, since it requires you to build your geometric intuition like no other lower division course. Can't coast through with just simple formulas like you can in single-variable calc. I mean that's really a disgrace.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

That really ing blows. I mean multivariable is maybe the most important math class an undergrad non-major can take, since it requires you to build your geometric intuition like no other lower division course. Can't coast through with just simple formulas like you can in single-variable calc. I mean that's really a disgrace.

Yeah exactly it's the class that introduces math at an applied level. I remember when I took it my first semester in school and it was a totally different animal than calc 1 and 2. I ended up with a B in the class but needed a 98 on the final in order to do so because I ed up the first half of the class.

[baseline bum]

Yeah exactly it's the class that introduces math at an applied level. I remember when I took it my first semester in school and it was a totally different animal than calc 1 and 2. I ended up with a B in the class but needed a 98 on the final in order to do so because I ed up the first half of the class.

Multivariable was maybe my 3rd favorite math class, behind algebra and complex analysis. Only bad thing about algebra is people always mistake it for college algebra and act like you're a re when you tell them how hard algebra class is. I wish they had these videocourses available when I was in school so I could point people to them and ask if they could make it through the first lecture:

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/ope...stract-algebra

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Multivariable was maybe my 3rd favorite math class, behind algebra and complex analysis. Only bad thing about algebra is people always mistake it for college algebra and act like you're a re when you tell them how hard algebra class is. I wish they had these videocourses available when I was in school so I could point people to them and ask if they could make it through the first lecture:

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/ope...stract-algebra

whenever I told a business major I was taking linear algebra they would say back, "Really math minors take that? I took that class in high school!"

[jag]

Yeah exactly it's the class that introduces math at an applied level. I remember when I took it my first semester in school and it was a totally different animal than calc 1 and 2. I ended up with a B in the class but needed a 98 on the final in order to do so because I ed up the first half of the class.

I found multivariable to be much easier than calc 2. I made a C in calc 2 and an A in multivariable. It was a lot easier for me once I could visualize and literally build what I had learned in calculus 1 and 2. It puts everything together.

Calc 2 probably isn't much more difficult, I just ed around a lot in calc 2 and didn't do any hw. With multivariable, all I heard was how hard it was and how it was going to kick my ass. So I went into it expecting a bukkake and worked a lot harder.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Yeah for whatever reason it took a few low B, almost C experiences in multivariable and Diff EQ before I realized this wasn't high school and stuff like doing homework/studying was actually required if I wanted an A in the class. My multivariable teacher was this huge Ukrainian Jew who said to me early on that semester when I was talking to her "Dis is what I hate about American High School, dey trick student to think university mad (math) is easy" and I thought it was the same bull as when high school math teachers would say, "This is the year math gets tough!"

[baseline bum]

whenever I told a business major I was taking linear algebra they would say back, "Really math minors take that? I took that class in high school!"

You're taking an entire year of algebra?????? Why do you need 3 quarters worth of courses for solving quadratic equations?

[FkLA]

They just recently took off Cal III from the requirements, I know I took it as one of mine. If Im not mistaken Cal II is now a 4 hour class instead of just 3 and it includes vector Calculus. Try again scros.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

They just recently took off Cal III from the requirements, I know I took it as one of mine. If Im not mistaken Cal II is now a 4 hour class instead of just 3 and it includes vector Calculus. Try again scros.

that's still not even close to the math a minor has to take and it's still hilarious you said you were practically a mathematician when you haven't taken any upper level math classes.

The question still remains what exactly did you think a math minor has to take when you apparently thought a math minor takes less math than an engineering major.

[FkLA]

that's still not even close to the math a minor has to take and it's still hilarious you said you were practically a mathematician when you haven't taken any upper level math classes.

The question still remains what exactly did you think a math minor has to take when you apparently thought a math minor takes less math than an engineering major.

I know what a math minor is. At UTSA its Diff Eqs, Linear Algebra, all the Calculi, and like two upper division electives. Im getting that minor as well...but I guess you are right in that in that in strictly maths and not the physics behind it you did take as much as any of engineering major.

[FkLA]

im an ME bump, you in engineering too brah ?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

So lets reviewing everything FkLA said to summarize the argument he's about to say he won.

DoK, why are you flexing your muscles about being good at math? Whats the hardest math class you have to take to be an accounting/finance major? It aint like youre a damn near mathematician like me so sit your ass down tbh.

FkLA calls himself a "damn near mathematician" and puffs his chest out because he took calc III, a class I took the first semester of my freshman year. I try to let him off easy by simply saying I'm a math minor, but he insists on being re ed.

You know how you feel about liberal art people who have easy ass majors? Thats how I feel about s like you who have some easy math classes and want to pat themselves on the back.

This coming from the guy who's patting himself on the back for the math he's taken that never got above 200 level.

How many classes did you take to get the minor and what are they? I doubt youve taken as much as an engineering major although tbf if you have a minor then you do have some solid maths under your belt.

FkLA, having no idea what math a math minor needs to take "doubts" I've taken as much math as an engineering major, a la he doubts someone who minors in math has to take calc III, a 200 level course.

Not bad, actually. Honest question though if youre good at math and enjoy it why didnt you pursue a badass engineering degree like me, bro ?

Now he realizes that I've taken significantly more math than him so he backs off back keeps up the superiority complex by saying "not bad", as if he's in any kind of position to be critiquing the amount of math I've taken

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I know what a math minor is. At UTSA its Diff Eqs, Linear Algebra, all the Calculi, and like two upper division electives. Im getting that minor as well...but I guess you are right in that in that in strictly maths and not the physics behind it you did take as much as any of engineering major.

So you knew that a math minor added additional math as a requirement to your schedule yet you "doubted" I've taken as much math as an engineering major knowing that I've taken more math than any engineering major without a math minor?

Yeah, that sounds totally logical.

[FkLA]

Youre so defensive.

I wasnt attacking you. I called myself a damn near mathematician compared to what I thought was your basic finance degree with minimal maths. After I knew of the classes you took for your minor the not bad statement wasnt even meant in a bad way...as in that same sentence I implied that you couldve been an engineer.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

So what math classes have you taken?

[baseline bum]

You ever studied any PDE, DoK? ing Black-Scholes blew me away the first time I saw it; transforming a probabilistic PDE into a simple deterministic heat equation whose solution is a simple integral (namely, the error function) by hedging. Of course Myron Scholes needed an enormous bailout for his company when his equation couldn't stand huge shocks to the market (e.g., Russia's default), but it's still a really cool idea for when the market isn't in such a ed up state.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

You ever studied any PDE, DoK? ing Black-Scholes blew me away the first time I saw it; transforming a probabilistic PDE into a simple deterministic heat equation whose solution is a simple integral (namely, the error function) by hedging. Of course Myron Scholes needed an enormous bailout for his company when his equation couldn't stand huge shocks to the market (e.g., Russia's default), but it's still a really cool idea for when the market isn't in such a ed up state.

Touched on them in Advanced Applied Analysis but barely. I also took advanced applied analysis so long ago that I don't remember much multivariable/PDE stuff

Myron Scholes is a huge asshole. Within 5 minutes of meeting the guy you can tell all he's thinking about is when will this conversation end so he can go back to jerking off to his calculus book.

[jag]

I'm trying to figure out how one 4-hour Calculus II course, which supposedly includes multivariable, is equivalent to two separate 3-hour courses dedicated to Calculus II and Multivariable, respectively.

FkLA's math isn't adding up. Which isn't surprising.

[baseline bum]

I'm trying to figure out how one 4-hour Calculus II course, which supposedly includes multivariable, is equivalent to two separate 3-hour courses dedicated to Calculus II and Multivariable, respectively.

FkLA's math isn't adding up. Which isn't surprising.

They added a recitation section with a TA teaching the multivariable?

[The Reckoning]

ll math geeks

[GoodOdor]

FkLA's math isn't adding up. Which isn't surprising.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I'm trying to figure out how one 4-hour Calculus II course, which supposedly includes multivariable, is equivalent to two separate 3-hour courses dedicated to Calculus II and Multivariable, respectively.

FkLA's math isn't adding up. Which isn't surprising.

http://utsa.edu/ucat/COS/MAT.html#mat1224

Here's the description of calc II at UTSA:
"Methods of integration, applications of the integral, sequences, series, and Taylor expansions. (Formerly MAT 1223. Credit cannot be earned for both MAT 1224 and MAT 1223.)"

doesn't say anything about vectors or multivariable
not any different than the typical calc II class

[Clipper Nation]

http://utsa.edu/ucat/COS/MAT.html#mat1224

Here's the description of calc II at UTSA:
"Methods of integration, applications of the integral, sequences, series, and Taylor expansions. (Formerly MAT 1223. Credit cannot be earned for both MAT 1224 and MAT 1223.)"

doesn't say anything about vectors or multivariable
not any different than the typical calc II class

lmfaoooooooo utsa