<p>Hi, would it be beneficial to major in both math and cs if i want to go to graduate school for math?</p>
<p>Adding a CS (and/or Economics and/or Statistics) major or minor to a pure math major would mainly be good as a job and career hedge in case you do not go to graduate school in math, or do not find the job and career prospects in academia after graduate school to be appealing.</p>
<p>Of course, a math major may be interested in those math-related subjects anyway, so a math major may take courses or a minor or a major in those subjects purely out of interest.</p>
<p>So to be more blunt, in terms of math graduate school only, a major in CS is useless.</p>
<p>so i shouldn’t do it then?</p>
<p>Do it if you want the job and career hedge, or if the subject interests you. Though for these purposes, a minor would be nearly as good while being less of a schedule juggle.</p>
<p>Don’t do it otherwise.</p>
<p>well while i haven’t taken cs classes yet, the idea of programming with programs like python has always intrigued me so i may just go for a cs minor</p>
<p>You can always take the class just to learn something and to satisfy interests, without having to formally declare a major, minor or whatever. You might love it and switch to CS, you might hate it and forgo any further CS classes, or you might dabble in it with or without pursuing a minor.</p>
<p>well will all the math classes that i have already taken, i know that i absolutely LOVE pure mathematics and i doubt anything can compare to it. I was also wondering if it would be a good idea for me to taken Honors math 54 or just math 54 my first semester at Cal? Is it really that much harder than the normal version? would the small class size help or hurt my in my acclimation to Cal?</p>
<p>How can you be so sure that you love pure math when you haven’t even taken the equivalent of Math 54 yet?</p>
<p>singh2010 makes a valid point. You have barely grazed the calculus and yet you express this adorably uppercase love for pure mathematics. What have you explored that has so piqued your interest–triangle proofs? Number lines?</p>
<p>H54 should give you more of a taste of proof and derivation oriented work that becomes more prominent in upper division math courses.</p>
<p>More from the Math department: [Honors</a> Courses - UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses_honors.html]Honors”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses_honors.html)</p>
<p>i have taken calc1, 2, 3, differential equations, discrete mathematics, and complex analysis. I think that 6 math classes are enough to realize that i want to be a pure math major.</p>
<p>You sound like the kind of person who would take the honors math courses.</p>
<p>You can throw in CS 61A just to see if you like it (continue on to 61B and 61C if you like it). Other subjects that may be of interest to you in terms of being math-related include economics (e.g. 101A/101B/C103/104/136/138/141), statistics (134/135/etc.), and physics (H7A/H7B/H7C/etc.).</p>
<p>that’s good so all u need is math 49 (the linear algebra part) for lower division and then u can start upper divs right away :)</p>
<p>complex analysis … as a high school student? damn they dont even offer that at community colleges where’d you take that class</p>
<p>again that doesn’t mean u won’t be interested in applied math. A friend of mine was in the same situation as you…started with math 104 as his first math class but after two years he realized it was all too abstract for him and preferred more applied material (he’s into physics). </p>
<p>i would suggest (if you’re really interested in math) to just take math 49 to finish up the linear algebra part and jump right into upper divs. If you’re confident you can do something like math 49, math 104, and then two electives or another math class if u really want. As for grad school, no cs won’t help u.</p>
<p>the reason that i think that i want to go pure instead of applied is that i, for some reason, dislike all real world applications of math. i don’t like physics or anything that is the application of math and i honestly don’t know why. it all seems almost kind of dirty and inexact and i hate that(not that i’m hating on those people who love that stuff :)). </p>
<p>JBeak, i all of my math and other college classes at a 4year college, not a community college</p>
<p>Based on your preference for pure math, it would appear that Math H54 is the best choice for your first semester (or ask the instructor if you can do just the linear algebra part under Math 49). Most upper division math courses require Math 54; the courses that do not are Math 116 (cryptography) and Math 172 (combinatorics). Even if you also took one or both of those, you would still have to find one or more courses to fill in the rest of your semester (breadth? R&C? CS 61A?).</p>
<p>Second semester, you can then take courses like 110, 104, and 113, which are prerequisites to most other upper division math courses. H110 is offered in the spring, but you’ll have to wait until fall if you want to take H104 and H113.</p>
<p>well besides going more in depth into the topics covered in each course, what are the advantages to taking the honors version rather than the normal version? is it harder to earn a higher grade in the honors version? do professors prefer honors students when deciding on who does research with them?</p>
<p>mjmay7 I think the best thing for you to do is finish linear algebra over the summer (either by self study or course) and so that way u can jump into upper divs first semester.</p>
<p>well i live in MI so there is no way for me to do the course over the summer</p>
<p>I meant at a local college or self study</p>
<p>otherwise first semester you’ll basically be having only 2/3rds of a math class, which given how interested u are in math, u probably won’t be satisfied with</p>