<p>How much more difficult is the 1 series from the 16 series and why? How bad are those proofs?</p>
<p>Actually, Math 1A is really, really easy if you have taken Calculus in your highschool (which you prolly did). (I went to 0 lectures and got what would be curved as an A in my midterm)</p>
<p>I think the 16 series doesn do the taylor series and such, but I’m not sure :)</p>
<p>It really depends on the professor, though general con. is that the 1 series is harder than the 16 series. For ex, when I took math 1A our professor was pretty difficult, it got where people weren’t finishing a single problem on the midterms, so he curved the class to a C average and gave out around 5-10% A and A-'s…
But odds are that won’t happen to you.</p>
<p>@nico: uh that is bad advice, i know plenty of people who took Calc in high school but didn’t do well. </p>
<p>go for 16 series if it’s all the same for your major or what not. i heard harrington is pretty easy for that class.</p>
<p>also i think the only proofs you need to do are epsilon-delta ones, and they weren’t that bad. i had wilkening.</p>
<p>lemme guess nico, you have borcherds? borcherds is really nice, but if he were to ever give a test on his lectures, we would all probably get C’s to failing grades. The 1a/1b series is more difficult than 16 (much more so in my honest opinion). You don’t get as much proofs in 1b, but you have to know/memorize a lot more methods of solving problems.</p>
<p>thanks!! =]</p>
<p>i have borcherds and i have to agree with nico. borcherds is fairly generous in his grading but true, if we took a midterm on his lectures we’d all fail lol.</p>
<p>yeah I have borcherds lol</p>