What branch of Mathematics did you find most difficult?

[BamBam215]

Originally posted by: KillerKing
Math Logic/Theory is the hardest i think!

kinda ironic considering a lot of math theories really do seem to have no logic

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Discrete Math. DM-1 I didn't do too bad in - ended up with a B. DM2 I ended up dropping b/c I had no frickin' clue what the hell was going on. Calc, Algebra, Trig, Geometry all came natural to me.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I vote for PDEs and, more generally, BVPs. If you don't know what those are, just be happy that you don't.


(PDE = Partial differential equations, BVP = Boundary Value Problems)

*edit* I haven't taken any analysis but I hear it's a huge pain in the ass as well

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: jbahseng
complex variables

generally Complex Vars are not that bad until your prof goes nuts with the PDEs and BVPs involving complex variables. Just remember, residues are your friend :beer:

 

[zbalat]

Chaos theory

The only class I ever dropped. I was lost from day one. It was a graduate course I took for fun my junior year.

I graduated with a degree in Mathematics but that class blew me away.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Calc.

 

[sharkeeper]

FMDM

(FeMale Decision Making)

-DAK-

 

[Gibson486]

Calc1 was really easy. I slept and i got an A-. Calc2 is a little harder, but it takes getting used too. The most challenging thing in clac 2 is using the shell method and finding center mass and moments of inertia (Physics actually mad ethat stuff easier cause there was no deriving) I luckily ended up with a B+ even thpough i still cant do the application stuff. Calc3 is a ok, right now i am just doing differential equations, which is not hard, but it takes practice, however, in the coming week, i start infinite series, and that definately looks challenging.

BTW, Algebra was a breeze after the pre algebra class. It is the same concept over and over again. Goign down more years, I remember that i sucked in math. I rememeber in teh thrid grade when my tecaher asked how i got teh answer, i just responded "it says so in the book"

 

[hdeck]

i hated geometry because of the proofs, but it was an easy course.

i think my hardest class was taking high school albegra in jr. high. the teacher couldn't teach and that made it horrible.

the other maths are pretty easy. esp. calculus

 

[Evadman]

The one with numbers

 

[N8Magic]

Calculus OWNED me hardcore like no other class(es) ever had.

Funny thing is, I haven't used it since school and i've probably forgotten most of it.

 

[brtspears2]

Linear Algebra is surely a pain, but Calc takes the cake, but only when you are dealing with trig in calc problems.

 

[Yax]

PSTAT - No, not the easy classes that Econ majors take, the real Upper Division PSTAT. Where you had to calculate things like:
If you had 29 students in a classroom, what is the probability that at least 2 of them will have the same birthday? Then you find out its over 70% if you did the math right.

Killer class.

Edit: A quick search on the Internet and I found a Link.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

Calc and Trig bow to Discrete Math. All I have to say is proof by induction. But, everything bows to Differential Equations especially those of the partial kind.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
PSTAT - No, not the easy classes that Econ majors take, the real Upper Division PSTAT. Where you had to calculate things like:
If you had 29 students in a classroom, what is the probability that at least 2 of them will have the same birthday? Then you find out its over 95% if you did the math right.

Killer class.

i enjoyed Prob and Stats, but hated calculus

 

[Lola]

where is the "all" option?

 

[Jmman]

I must be a freak, because I don't find any math hard at all......

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
PSTAT - No, not the easy classes that Econ majors take, the real Upper Division PSTAT. Where you had to calculate things like:
If you had 29 students in a classroom, what is the probability that at least 2 of them will have the same birthday? Then you find out its over 70% if you did the math right.

Killer class.

Edit: A quick search on the Internet and I found a Link.

That is not hard to do. My second computer science class I took proved that one day.

 

[cheapgoose]

took my DifEQ and probably won't touch another math class for awhile. depends on how close I'm from a math miner.

 

[deftron]

long division

 

[ed21x]

linear algebra != algebra

discrete math is the hardest... followed by calculus, trig, algebra, geometry.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
PSTAT - No, not the easy classes that Econ majors take, the real Upper Division PSTAT. Where you had to calculate things like:
If you had 29 students in a classroom, what is the probability that at least 2 of them will have the same birthday? Then you find out its over 70% if you did the math right.

Killer class.

Edit: A quick search on the Internet and I found a Link.

That is not hard to do. My second computer science class I took proved that one day.

yea that's what i love about computer science.... teaches you how to do all those little puzzlers

 

[Ionizer86]

Actually, Alg 1 was hard for me. I needed Alg 2 to reinforce a lot of that. Then Alg 2 was hard, and I reinforced a lot of the stuff in Calc class. Finally Calc 3 isn't too hard right now.

Hard topics: Trig proofs, ick! Only one I really know is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1 Calc with trig stuff aside from deriving sin and cos is still hard.
Logs and natural logs sucked really badly for me, until I took some time and figured out the dumb stuff like ln = log base e.
Calc 2/C was really bad. I blew at polar and parametrics and areas of surfaces of rotation and volumes of rotation etc.

<--highest math is Calc 3/D. We did Green's Theorem today. Looking good

 

[Dudd]

So far the highest level math I've taken is Calc I (Adv Plancment AB), and it's been a cake walk. I haven't cracked open my book out of class more than four or five times all year, and if I do well on my final few tests, I should end up with a 90+ final average. If I actually cared at all about the class, then I could easily pull a 95 average for the year. I'd put money though that things will change next year when I start engineering.

 

[guapo337]

Originally posted by: Mallow
geometry b/c of those lame ass proofs!

oh the pain. word to lame ass proofs. these were all my 1st semester of geometry was this year. gah!