Hello,
I’m a first year math (and possibly statistics major) who’s taken the Math 160’s and I was wondering if you guys would recommend taking Honors Analysis. My grades were an A in 161 and a B+ in 162. I’m also taking Math 20250 (Abstract Lin Alg) and would say its middle of the road difficulty for me.
Anyways, do you guys think I should take Honors Analysis or just Accelerated. I’ve heard from some sources HA is basically Accelerated Analysis and Abstract Lin Alg except it only take up one course, while others have said HA is significantly harder analysis than Accelerated. What do you guys think?
Also, part of me is not sure I can do Honors Analysis since I got a B+ in 162, yet another part of me thinks that if I want to become an math academic I have to take HA to try and compensate for doing poorly in 162. Again, what do you guys think?
Honors is significantly harder than accelerated. You don’t need to do honors analysis to be a math academic (and it will likely hurt you more than help if you are unprepared and do poorly in honors analysis). If you find 20250 middle of the road difficulty honors analysis is probably going to be a bit of a struggle - for comparison, first quarter honors analysis has you do an analysis pset, and a linear algebra pset every week, where the linear algebra pset is much harder than 20250 and the analysis pset is much harder than accelerated.
You should talk to people in the math department about this. I’m sure Dr. Boller or Dr. Stehnova would be happy to give you more detailed advice.
You won’t get invited with a B+ in 162. I’m sorry to be this blunt but I never heard of anyone getting in without A, A, A or at least A, A, A-.
207 covers a significant chunk, if not all of baby Rudin, and a significant chunk of LADW, so yes it’s one year of regular/accelerated analysis in one quarter. Accel analysis touches a bit on measure theory, not sure about functional analysis.
208 and 209 are different topics in analysis, varies year to year.