I'm about to graduate and apply to PhD programs; I am a Stats/Math major. The classes I took and will take are
Into to Advanced Mathematics
Applied Linear Algebra
Abstract Linear Algebra
Stats/Prob. 1
Stats/Prob. 2
Methods of Applied Stats
Abstract Algebra 1
Analysis of Variance
Time Series...
I'm at UIUC as well. I'm doing Mathematics (with the applied concentration) and Statistics as my two majors, though I'm in the honors math program and just finished the honors real analysis sequence. I'm about to graduate, but if I could start over, I would change my Stats major to the...
Hi Physicsforum,
I'll be graduating next semester (one semester early) with a degree in Pure Math and Statistics (minor in Atmopheric Science). I have good research experience and an internship and can get some good letters of recommendation. However, I'm worried that I don't have enough...
Fall 2012 (Last semester as an undergrad!):
Graduate PDEs
Graduate Dynamical Systems
Graduate Real Analysis(Measure Theory), if I can get into it, otherwise Nonlinear Programming or Stochastic Processes
Numerical Fluid Dynamics
Definitely getting started on problems is my slowest part. I'm pretty quick at calculations and I catch my mistakes in computational problems fairly quickly. Questions that ask me to prove things are another story. I look at the problem and if I don't immediately know how to do it, I panic...
Does your university some sort of academic support service? At mine, you can go in and take a series of tests and they'll give you some sort of diagnosis and if you qualify, you can get extra times on exams. I had a friend who had the same problems you're describing. He finally went there his...
This is exactly how I feel. I don't understand how some people finish those questions so quickly. Then I always go home and take time to work them out and beat myself up over it.
Couldn't there be a better way to test people? That doesn't require "getting lucky" and seeing the answers...
Hi Physics Forum,
So last night, I took an hour and a half Analysis on Manifolds midterm and there's no way I got over a 60 on it. It was 6 questions long.
The problem I always have with math tests is that I never have enough time to do them! If he had given us those six problems as...
Well I was planning on taking at least one differential equations class out of the two. I was just wondering if it would be a better idea to take both differential equation classes vs. one differential equation class + complex or numerical methods.
Hi PhysicsForum!
Fall 2012 semester will be my last semester as an undergrad in Math and Statistics and I was planning on taking a handful of graduate level classes. I'm planning on applying to grad school in Applied Math and concentrating on differential equations, fluid dynamics, or...
I guess I should have posted my undergraduate background:
Probability/Statistics:
Statistics and Probability 1 and 2
Methods of Applied Statistics
Linear Regression
Time Series Analysis
Analysis of Variance (theoretical)
Markov Chains and Stochastic Processes
Mathematics:
Intro to...
Hey deRham,
That's what's a little worrying to me. I have only one more semester after this one and I will not have taken a functional analysis class nor a topology class. I will have taken two semesters of analysis (the second semester is called "Analysis on Manifolds") and I'm planning on...
Hey chiro, thanks for the reply!
You've made me feel a lot better about my chances. My minor is actually in atmospheric science and I've taken classes on atmospheric radiation and two semesters of atmospheric dynamics. I'm also planning on taking measure theory and a numerical fluid dynamics...
I'm looking at getting a PhD in applied math (applied probability, stochastic processes, or PDEs are my main interests) and I feel like people going to grad school have so much more math than I do. Just wanted to know what is normal for someone currently in their sixth semester. I'm a math and...