<p>Christine, I take it Southern girls are like Lebanese girls! Hehe!!!</p>
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hey everyone...i am taking math 295 this semester...w00t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>heck...should be interesting...oh, and i am taking Honors Physics 160 to boot!
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<p>me too, see you there</p>
<p>hey tetrahedron, are u really taking both classes?!?!?!?!?!/</p>
<p>if so, that is AWESOME...hope i meet u...i'll ask around in class if someone has a cc account with ur name...don't be shy :)</p>
<p>by the way, what do u think of Spatzier???
and what about Uher???</p>
<p>Hehehe...I've facebook freaked-out so many people today...
tetrahedr0n was sad that didn't have a southern accent.</p>
<p>haha christine i definitely am. shawshank i have to say hi to you tommorow! spatzier seemed really cool i think hell be a great teacher. i like uher too, what did you think?</p>
<p>Hey tetrhedron, i look forward to meeting u tomorrow...and Christine (don;t hold it against me but i don't have a facebook accound and for obviously good reasons to which u can attest)</p>
<p>By the way, i liked both of them but i thought that Spatzier was quirky (in a good way)</p>
<p>Reviving a 3 year old thread. Anyone know anything about Bonk? He’s teaching 295 this year.</p>
<p>[Mario</a> Bonk - University of Michigan - RateMyProfessors.com](<a href=“Mario Bonk at University of Michigan | Rate My Professors”>Mario Bonk at University of Michigan | Rate My Professors)</p>
<p>The top review seems to have had him for several classes and likes him. The only 2 negative ones were for Math 417, and from the dates I would guess from the same semester.</p>
<p>Holy crap this is an old thread. We still haven’t figured out what happened to Shawshank_Knives…</p>
<p>Who’s taking 295 this year? We’ll probably be in the same class, haha.</p>
<p>295? Dang. That’s gonna be hard, but it’s nice to be challenged. </p>
<p>I’m doing 285, and I’m already scared about what I’m going up against. (aka I’ve been reading Calculus books on theory for some weeks now) There are some really smart people taking those math classes at Michigan.</p>
<p>Me! One of my roommates is in it too.</p>
<p>295 It is!!..Looking forward to learn from Prof…BOnk</p>
<p>As I’ve stated before, yay 295!</p>
<p>Sudar, cool to see you turned down P-ton. I’m guessing the money was just too awesome to turn down. Someone from our school did the same, but he turned down Northwestern and Tufts. Just not Princeton…</p>
<p>Also I think I’m going to be the idiot in the class, probably the only one who didn’t make honors. Or who applied for honors and got rejected… >_<</p>
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<p>285 is pretty easy and you’re not really going up against anyone extremely talented or anything. The math geniuses are either in 295 or have already taken calc 3 and plenty more and are taking 400 level math classes.</p>
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<p>Nah, I didn’t mean to intimidate you. I’m just trying to point out that most of the folks in math 285 are pretty normal and not some intense competitive math people.</p>
<p>You’ll do fine in 295 if you’re willing to work at it and you take it seriously.</p>
<p>As Prof Debacker told my son who did 295/296/395/396, the show ponies typically drop out but the work horses make it through.</p>
<p>Question: What’s the difference between 285 and 295 then? (content, approach, etc)</p>
<p>"Question: What’s the difference between 285 and 295 then? (content, approach, etc) "</p>
<p>285, Honors Calc III, is what it sounds like: Calc III but with fewer people in your class so you can get more attention. 295 is more theoretical and there’s lots of proofs involved; I’ve heard you actually have to prove the basics (like how 2+2=4) and move up to more complicated stuff. Personally, I didn’t feel prepared for it because I didn’t take Calc III (my dad wouldn’t let me because he hated having to pay for the class and having me take the car when I was dual-enrolling for Calc II), so I’m starting out by taking 285. Maybe we’re in the same class; if we are, you should be able to pick me out (I’m a girl) because math classes tend to be brodeos.</p>
<p>The 2+2=4 stuff is just to get used to a few basic properties given in the introduction of the book. There’s no proving 1+1=2 in the sense of rigorous mathematical foundation (i.e. Principia Mathematica by Russell & Whitehead).</p>
<p>I’m willing to bet the class entails quite a bit of set theory. Naive Set Theory by Halmos is therefore a great complimentary text, I think. In fact, it’s recommended by Spivak at the end of Calculus.</p>
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I’ve talked to a grad student who said that most of his mathematical knowledge was learned independent of the classroom. My conclusion is that if you have the passion for the subject, you will succeed. At least, that’s what I’m hoping.</p>