Recent content by SCV

Yeah, it doesn't work for every one. Well, eventually you will be at the level where you do the lecturing. You will no longer have lecturers and will have to learn subjects by reading. So you basically want to be able to study a lot of different areas? Yeah, you would probably have to find a...

Well Complex Analysis is anything but a narrow subject, but anyways: During my first year, I cheacked out a lot of book from the library, (well at that time I thought it was alot, I had about 40 from the library, now I have about 200). What I did was look through the University Catalog for the...

Well that book is probably harder to learn from than Churchill and Brown. Its very theoretical and it doesn't hold your hand as much. It includes many advanced, i.e., Graduate level, topics. You can definitely learn from that book, I did, but if you are not mathematically mature enough it might...

We used Gamelin's Complex Analysis

For that one the prerequisites were 2 quarters of undergraduate real analysis.

Why did you have to quote that long post to ask this? Anyways, the answer is it depends on how the professor chooses to present the course and what he/she chooses to assume. The course description you posted seems like that of an undergraduate course. If, so far it doesn't seem to rigorous...

You should never compare yourself to others. Preparation and having people guide a student make a world of difference. Something that might give some insight as to what is going on is to see what happens in a family where there is no background of parents being professionals and so on. I have...

Really you guys should pay attention to the mentors and mathwonk rather than an undergraduate who is worried that he will be mopping floors or working at a coffee shop if he doesn't work as a physicist after getting a physics degree. Research and knowledge is not a linear thing. One person...

Complex Variables was the first upper division class I took. I took it from the hardest professor that teaches that class. I took Real Analysis at the same time, the courses were very different. I had to work very hard in this course but I did good (A-) I took the Graduate course in Complex...

So your professor thinks Complex Variables will be too hard for you? If so did the professor say why? The usual undergraduate course in Complex Variables has very little rigor. This doesn't mean it can't be hard. In complex analysis there are different techniques to learn than in Real...

Being a high school teacher is more depressing than mopping floors or working at a coffee shop? Also my original intention was to become a high school teacher after college. I saw that I liked research so I am going to shoot for a position at a research university. But if I don't make it...

I have said the same thing as mathwonk and you can't say that everything has worked out for me. But then again you can just say that I can't know how it is because I haven't made it through, right? Getting a PhD in physics (or math) and not ending up with a position at a research university...

Why do you care how society will value your work? The feeling that having an enjoyable job causes last much more than 5 minutes. Looking forward to a job you enjoy makes your day. While looking forward to a job you dread, no matter how well paying, will make your day miserable. Again it...

Depends on your interests. Have you developed any interests yet? The two subject matters are largely unrelated. As long as you are comfortable with logical thinking and proofs as in the normal upper division linear algebra you should be fine. Maybe taking one before the other might be...

Mathwonk- I would like to know if you felt a "pressure to publish" or if you did so because you wanted to present your results. -------------------------- I would think that for someone who enjoys researching, he might nor feel such a pressure as someone who did not like to research. For...