What level of math are you proficient in?

Calculus was the easiest, but Discrete Math is probably my favsies. Does that actually count as a math, though? It seems very... not like the others. On the other hand, I hate Linear Algebra with a passion, which I took two levels of, one as a part of my major, and the other was a pre-req for the one that's part of my major, and they were pretty much the same. I just can't see when I'd ever use it.

Even if you don't understand the linear algebra behind it:
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-svd
you should be able to understand (via the pictures) what it is they are trying to do.

scroll down to the end section called "data compression" then "noise reduction" and the one after "Data Analysis". Those are three great applications of things you learn in an advanced linear algebra course.

Mfw there is a class called abstract algebra... and it has nothing to do with regular high school algebra.

Most people are going to filter the word abstract as an adjective and connect it to a concept like abstract art. I imagine that more math related people will be more disposed to the word being utilized as a verb: to abstract equations, data, and the like rather than have them remain as abstract considerations.

Those are three great applications of things you learn in an advanced linear algebra course.

Yes, I recall covering something like that towards the end. It's not like I don't see why Linear Algebra is useful, or some practical applications. I just meant that I, specifically, don't (perhaps only currently) have a use for linear algebra, and I dislike it because it doesn't really interest me, not that I find anything bad about it. I guess I exaggerated my dislike of it, but it is the math I like the least.

I'm only on Geometry, and I hate proofs with a burning passion. Took Algebra I in 8th grade and got a 97 on the EoC. Next classes I'll be taking are Algebra II, Trig/Pre-Cal, and AP Stat.

Can someone explain to me though if Trig and Pre-Cal are the same thing?

I'm in Calculus I at the moment, and my math professor is very strict with homeworks, taking off 3 points for one teensie-tiny mistake.
I'm just worried about it.

Fresh out of high school, starting college a year from now. Took Calc I my sophomore year, Calc II/Statistics my junior year, and Calc III & some introductory differential equations/linear algebra my senior year.

I was considering becoming a math major, until I discovered how the math taught at the university I will be attending is heavily proof-based and non-applicable. I don't know... I feel a bit discouraged to pursue it since I'm not familiar with formal proof writing at all.

Fresh out of high school, starting college a year from now. Took Calc I my sophomore year, Calc II/Statistics my junior year, and Calc III & some introductory differential equations/linear algebra my senior year.

I was considering becoming a math major, until I discovered how the math taught at the university I will be attending is heavily proof-based and non-applicable. I don't know... I feel a bit discouraged to pursue it since I'm not familiar with formal proof writing at all.

Didn't you take Geometry in school? Proving stuff about triangles and such?

I'm only on Geometry, and I hate proofs with a burning passion. Took Algebra I in 8th grade and got a 97 on the EoC. Next classes I'll be taking are Algebra II, Trig/Pre-Cal, and AP Stat.

Can someone explain to me though if Trig and Pre-Cal are the same thing?

Eh...sometimes schools lump them together under one category, but they're a bit distinct. "Trigonometry" refers to everything about triangles. "Pre-calc" is basically advanced Algebra and other math that isn't quite Calculus (Sets, Exponential/Lograithmic functions, parametric equations, polar equations, matrices, complex numbers, etc). The distinction is a bit weird.

I don't need anything higher than Diff. Eq for mechanical engineering--that's the last math class I took.

Didn't you take Geometry in school? Proving stuff about triangles and such?

I did take Geometry my freshman year. The two-column proofs in geometry (statements & reasons), however, are vastly different from the proofs by math induction (base case & leap of faith) in their method, though both are considered forms of deductive reasoning. I found the latter to be so much more intricate when I first learned it in my sophomore year. Perhaps I just wasn't exposed to math induction for long enough to get a grasp of the concept.

Taking Physics/Cal I/Trig currently.

taking Discrete Math and Linear Algebra atm(engineering major) still have to take Diff EQ and Calc 3

CS major here

Pretty much any form of calculus and maybe some discrete math (my high school teacher only taught like half the course so I'm not so sure about this). My calculus teacher in HS did an amazing job teaching calculus, so that pretty much carried over to college.

I'm adequate when it comes to mathematics. The furthest I studied was differential calculus. I struggled, but I understand higher concepts well enough to understand how they come into play with stats and data analysis. Stats is where my talents shine.

I study psychobiology. :v

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No real surprise I have a Bachelor and Master's degree in Computational Math, and I'm in a Ph.D. program in Applied Math at the moment...

Highest I ever went was college level calc. Other math courses I have taken include biostatistics, but I don't think that's "math-y" enough to fit what we are talking about.

ok we started learning calculus of variations in classical mechanics

3 hours of class spent so far on a proof where I have seen maybe 5% of the notation before (not really, I've seen more, just doesn't feel like it )

I think I still understand it though. Maybe. I'll figure out once we start doing examples.

Geometry in my Sophomore year of HS.

Yeah, I suck at math. I'm fair in English though.

Late for the party.

Enough math to handle quantum chemistry. Have no idea what that is defined as, but whatever works. The course at my place was a little unique imo.

Hadriel

highest level of math.....would be algebra 2 i guess sorta, i did pass the class, but i had a real shitty teacher who never checked the hw, went over tests, or taught that much in class. I got sorta screwed over cause i went from the bad teacher 1st semester> to trigonometry 2nd semester with a real good math teacher. Well she was my favorite in all of my hs(dont ask why, thats how the class was o.0). I managed to scrape by with a C, but i dont feel i understand it all that much, all from my lacking of understanding of algebra 2.
My college math placement test, put me at Trig, but ive yet to take a math class at my college ive been for 2 years, because they all get so full so fast its not even funny.... I did manage to take AP statistics though and get a 5 on the exam, if you could really call that a math class...