Recent content by jaskamiin

Agreed, but technically I'm not looking to go into academic research

Interestingly enough, the PDE book used for recent semesters at the program I'm looking at is the same we used for my undergrad PDE course. I'll take a look at those. You say it still requires rigorous proofs -- but my question is more along the lines of if it requires you to understand the...

I took plenty of applied courses... PDEs, numerical analysis, etc. But as I said in my other reply, I was expecting that those courses at a masters/graduate level would be rather proof based and a good base in Real Analysis would be required.

Not required. But it is available as an option, and I also figured that other courses like Numerical Analysis woild be more proof based at the masters level than what I took in undergrad.

The computation part I am not so rusty with. I should review and practice, but in general I remember how to do a lot. I'm more concerned about the theory (since I know real analysis will be classes I should take even in an applied program)

Probably will catch come flack, but honestly for a good problem book, Schaum's 3000 solved physics problems isn't bad... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071763465/?tag=pfamazon01-20

I've been out of school for a while and working as a programmer. I want to start taking some masters courses for applied math (PDEs, numerical analysis, etc) and need to become familiar again with the advanced math I used to use in undergrad. I took two semesters of real analysis as an...

"High level" is completely subjective, and to answer your question it completely depends. A chemical engineer will naturally need more chemistry knowledge than an aerospace engineer, who may never actually need any at all. There is, however, a core amount of math and physics that engineers in...

With electives and such, a lot of universities offer the flexibility to do something similar to that. I think that's more of a "western world" thing, though, and a lot of Europe doesn't offer that flexibility (and I think there are real benefits to that)

Well in general you're right. I don't (think that I) advise people to only take math courses. This was just meant as a general 'one stop shop' for the people *already* considering a math minor or double major to see what the benefits may be and what to expect, and/or for who want to take math...

There's a lot of questions that float around like "I'm an EE major, should I double/minor in math?", "What math classes should I take as a physics major?", etc. After I typed in the title, this already started to show. Maybe you will disagree with some philosophical points I make, but I think...

I know how to plug it in, but I don't see where the solution that is the product of the exponentials comes from. How was it found?

So one of my least favorite things that textbooks do is using the words "clearly", "it should be obvious", etc. In my PDEs class, we've started the Fourier Transform, and I missed the first day of it so I am trying to read through my book. Regarding the heat equation on an infinite domain, it...

The master's program I have been looking at allows taking a course like this as an elective: "Students acquire a more deeper knowledge on the nature and the power of quantum mechanics. In particular they know how to apply perturbation theory, to employ scattering theory and to apply symmetry...

As the title says, I am a mathematics major, but I'm taking extra physics and engineering courses. I'm interested in mathematical physics work in the future. I'm taking the first of two semesters of quantum physics offered by my school right now. I was planning to take the next course in the...