How do you learn the required math for undergraduate physics ?

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How do you learn the required math for undergraduate physics ? by reading Specialized Math texts or Mathematical methods texts ?
 
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By taking extra math courses that are required to understand certain Physical ideas.
 
A lot of it is picked up in the Physics courses themselves.
 

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