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Learning something isn't equivalent to enrolling in a class, if you find something interesting why don't you read up about it? There's nothing stopping you from auditing interesting classes although auditing students have a tendency to slack off, I find it sometimes hard to do assignments/turn...

It depends on how you're spending that hour... are you staring blankly at the problem hoping for something to pop into your head, or are you dissecting it into smaller parts, attempting it from different angles, laying out a plan of attack? Or, as Polya suggests, confer with the pillow! Or if...

hmm thanks a lot Matt I think I've got it.

Let X,Y be two spaces, A a closed subset of X, f:A--->Y a continuous map. We denote by X\cup_fY the quotient space of the disjoint union X\oplus{Y} by the equivalence relation ~ generated by a ~ f(a) for all a in A. This space is called teh attachment of X with Y along A via f. i) If A is a...

Have you done any stats or finance papers? http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/"

Why don't you scan in nice sketches? It will look a lot more impressive than paint, and you will learn how to draw surfaces and all that jazz. Even just copying gnuplot's images at first..., it sucked when my lecturers couldn't sketch surfaces in class (even roughly).

I saw http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~crlg/" lecture a couple of days ago at a group theory conference/workshop celebrating his 65th birthday at a talk titled "Apologia pro vita sua (defense of ones life)", he was amazing and inspiring. During the other seminars of the workshop, he'd often ask a...

ooooh hehe. crazy monkeys... :o

Oh of course. nevermind, it's factor right? how silly of me to forget.

Just out of curiosity: What's each term in a product called? ie the product equivalent of a summand? Thanks :smile:

I was like before I first started uni, wanted to do Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Biomedical, Computerscience, Philosophy and some more... When you actually finish your first semester things change. Now I'm just doing Science/Arts conjoint (major...

Is anything preventing you from studying? Family/friends? Are there assistance rooms at your school? People there will be more than eager to help you understand topics... or your lecturer? people here on PF will be more than happy as well :) Are the course texts difficult to understand? Try...

Find somewhere to live closer to your school, maybe with fellow students? Work during the weekend? Make sure you have a social life, but don't let it take over. One night ever few weeks could be reserved for friends/family? And make the most of it. You may have to go to extreme lengths, but...

Which university(s) are you thinking of attending? You should enquire within the science(?) faculty for this information, as it will vary from school to school. What are you graduating with? What are your interests? etc..

pronouncing sinh as "shine", tanh as "than", and sech as "sheck" always make me chuckle. Saying ln as "log" seems a lot less confuzzling