<p>Despite you are pure math or apllied math, what courses are you guys plannig to take?</p>
<p>I might be the only legitimate CC poster here in this category, and you already know I’m still deciding on mine. </p>
<p>What about you?</p>
<p>I fit into this category, although I don’t post much. Definitely 206 w/ Sarason, since I took 202A/B with him last year and fell in love with the subject. Maybe 204 also to get a more formal/rigorous/advanced background in diff eq’s and possibly 125A just cause Riemann is a great instructor and logic is a possible/unexplored interest for me.</p>
<p>I’m sort of on the fence as well, I’ve been avoiding algebra classes just cause I didn’t really enjoy my 113 class too much compared to analysis(which I loved) …but maybe I should give it another chance. Eventually I’ll have to anyway to pass quals in grad school.</p>
<p>I am thinking on math 110, 128A, stat 133, as well as another elective, but I hav no idea which elective to take.</p>
<p>Well, it looks like you’re doing an applied math major. This means your electives would come from different departments ideally, which are math heavy. </p>
<p>I would actually say doing quantum mechanics and linear algebra side by side is a good idea. So one choice would be Physics 137A (or if you’ve had some quantum on that note already, try 137B). Another choice is Physics 105 (Analytic Mechanics).</p>
<p>If I were you I’d take 137A for instance. </p>
<p>If you like computer science theory, and have background in some basic computer science (at the level of the AP AB exam) and background in discrete mathematics, you might want to try CS 170 – it’s taught by Papadimitriou; I hear he’s quite rigorous, and he’s an absolute star of the field. </p>
<p>There are also courses in fluid mechanics out there. And last, I guess I have heard good thing from a friend on certain IEOR courses.</p>
<p>thank you, mathboy.</p>
<p>Actually, I am thinking on IEOR, cuz one of my friend who transferred last year said IEOR courses are pretty good as well as the instructors. But still, I will get more info after the CALSO orientation.</p>
<p>Not to sound dismissive really, but I honestly can think of many people’s advice you’d be better served taking than those at those orientations.</p>
<p>I do know some former junior transfers to the math department here, and in general they didn’t feel the people at the orientation were the most helpful – they may have been, for instance, undergraduates or simply counselors – not professors or graduate students, who really really know what they’re doing when they advise you. </p>
<p>If I can suggest, I think you should consider what’s most interesting to you, ask around to those who’ve actually taken the given course and then either decide yay or nay. It’s your two years here, and you’ll probably be more satisfied if you do as you damn well please, but that’s just my thought on the matter.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your suggestions.</p>
<p>Yet I do have another question there. Is math 55: Discrete math required for graduation for incoming transfers? And when I declare my major, do I need to complete math 55 beforehand?</p>
<p>I am unfortunately not sure about the policy for junior transfers, and I didn’t see anything obvious on the website either – this I’d ask your advisor once you know who that is. </p>
<p>I don’t have to take Math 55 because I declared my major earlier than that rule went into play. If you’re entering and declaring now, unless there’s a special rule for junior transfers, you might have to do it, but then again, I could very well imagine the rules being different for you folks.</p>