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How should I prepare for Berkeley's Math 1A & Physics 8A?
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[QUOTE="fresh_42, post: 6007669, member: 572553"] Two weeks isn't much time. If it is sufficient for you to make your way through the book, then it's probably not worth doing. You could download the openstax books as a source to look up things if you get stuck somewhere. Therefore it might be better to know where in the books can be found what. Although the content of your classes will be pretty much the same everywhere, it is also the professor's style you will have to get used to. So I'd say, relax and see what will come. Here's a nice interview of a mathematician who addressed students with a recommendation of [U]how[/U] to study. It might be more valuable then another theorem learnt: [URL]http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201707/rnoti-p718.pdf[/URL] The most difficult part of the transition school - university has been in my experience the complete different point of view, and not so much the contents. Whereas in school we basically solved exercises and learned methods to do so, at university the emphasis is on proofs. If you're not used to them, read some, e.g. the mean value theorem or the theorem of Bolzano-Weierstraß. Another possibility is to have a look on a book about proofs, e.g. [URL]http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/BookOfProof.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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