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I'm glad you started this thread. Funny enough I was actually going to make a thread asking pretty much the same question. I feel like I'm in the same boat. For me I'm trying to teach myself real analysis using Walter Rudin's book or "baby Rudin". I've heard more times than not "it's not...

Thank you for link. I apologize I should have been more specific with my question. I actually wanted to see a proof or some method that specifically creates arcsin. I ask because I was tutoring a student one day in trig and was trying to get the angle of sin based on the output of the sin...

Can someone tell me where I can find a complete proof of the infinite series used to find the arcsin? thanks in advance.

I can relate to what you're going through. I graduated from a top tier school and my gpa suffered as well (I had health issues at the time). Rather than take a leave of absence I decided to try and plug through my classes. I ended up getting c's in all my math classes (7). In retrospect I...

Does anyone know of a publication that gives statistics such as avg. gre scores and gpa's for those who were accepted to math graduate programs? For ex. Avg. gpa of applicants accepted for Berkely was 3.7 I've tried using peterson's guide but it only gives % accepted to the school...

Good luck to you. I'm sure you'll do fine

But couldn't it help if you take extra math classes to boost your gpa?

Grade point average

I'm kind of in the same position. My Math gpa sucks (about a 2.5). The only option I can think of to combat the gpa problem is to maybe take more math courses outside school after you graduate. That way you could get a better math background and boost the gpa.

I agree. I tutor people at a local community college and many of them do not want to do the work required to solve the problem. I usually just put it in their lap and let them run with it (i.e. let them think about the problem as best they can). That way I can see where they might get hung up...

God bless you and I wish you good luck in your future endeavors. Follow your talent and I guarnetee the rest will fall into place.

Perhaps I am trying try to jump ahead too fast. I'll be sure to keep all this info. in mind. Thank you all for the suggestions.

Fairly recently I've been tutoring my 11 year old cousin in math. We've been going over things like equivalent fractions, multiplication, and long division. So far we've been breezing through the sections. His teacher learned about this and would like me to introduce him to more sophisticated...

I'm not sure about the rankings for electrical engineering at UIUC but I know for a fact they are ranked near with MIT for engineering in general. It's a very competitive school. Many of the people from my hs class would apply under a different college program (ex. UIUC's libertal arts...

Quote from Steven Krantz's A Mathematician's Survival Guide: "It helps to be a math major, but that is not essential. Physics majors, and other majors also go to graduate school in mathematics." I would also suggest, besides picking up that book, taking extra upper division math courses in...