<p>I'm not sure how many of you know, but I thought since a lot of high schoolers here are in high level math, you could tell me what the math sequence is for college math?</p>
<p>I'm currently in Calculus BC</p>
<p>From what I understand, the sequence goes:</p>
<p>Calculus
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Multi-variable Calculus
Multi-variable Calculus II
Differential Equations II</p>
<p>Also I saw something called Discrete Mathematics?? The prereq. for both MV Calc and Diff. Equations seemed to just be Calculus (ABC).</p>
<p>Is there a set path? or does it really just vary after Calculus ABC? What is the typical engineering major path? Thanks guys. :)</p>
<p>For Engineering it should be something like:
Calc BC
Calc III (That’s Multivariable Calc, and just 1 semester of it)
Differential Equations (That’s sometimes also called Calc IV)
And maybe Linear Algebra after that. Shouldn’t need anything else.</p>
<p>^Really… I just checked, general requirements at MIT engineering don’t require beyond Linear Algebra. Specific departments may require more but in general that’s is.</p>
<p>i looked at a few engineering schools and the general req are like calc, mv calc, linear alg., and diff equations. Also the order of mv calc and linear algebra seems to vary.</p>
<p>WOW… honestly - ***… I thought calculus only went up to Diff Eq. (which is pretty much Calc IV). I agreed more with Querty when I saw his post - unless you are a math major - which of course you will be taking more specific courses.</p>
<p>I always thought that after Calc, you go into more theoretical mathematics (Linear Algebra is a small taste of that), provided that you are a math major (or minor).</p>
<p>It really depends on what you do and the college you go to. After Calculus, the rest of lower division math is generally:</p>
<p>Differential Multivariable
Integral Multivariable (usually the same class as above at semester schools)
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations</p>
<p>Some colleges require them in that order, others will let you take them in any order. Some might make you take Differential Multivariable and then you choose the order.</p>
<p>If you’re a math major you would then probably take some kind of introduction to proofs class, which may be separate or done as part of like Linear Algebra or Analysis. After that it varies a lot.</p>
<p>If I’m not mistaken it goes something like:</p>
<p>AP Calc BC
Multivariable Differntial/Integral Calulus
Linear Algebra
Then Differntial Equations and/or Real Analysis and/or Modern Algebra
If you choose to do Real Analysis then you could do Complex Analysis
If you choose to fo Differential Equations then you can do Partial Differential Equations</p>
<p>Then there are always courses like Logic and Number Theory that don’t necessarily require any Calculus.</p>
…and I maintain what I said before. Mechanical might just need through differential equations, software engineering jobs may require combinatorics or number theory, industrial can need many upper-level statistics courses… you get the idea.</p>