<p>Of the following classes required for the math minor:</p>
<p>Mathematics 104 Introduction to Analysis
Mathematics 110 Linear Algebra
Mathematics 113 Introduction to Abstract Algebra
Mathematics 185 Introduction to Complex Analysis</p>
<p>What's a good order or sequence to take them in in terms of difficulty from least difficult to most difficult. I realize many other factors might come into the term "difficult" but for any math majors or minors out there, which ones did you feel were easier than the others and a good gauge for getting in the groove of upper division math. Thanks for reading this!</p>
<p>I’m a freshman and I just started upper division math. This is the order that I’m planning on taking these courses in:</p>
<p>110
113
104
185</p>
<p>The Math department recommends 110 for your first upper division course because you’ll already know all the concepts from 54. A lot of people tend to put off 104 because it… sorta… is really hard, supposedly. I’m currently in 55 and 110, so I don’t know of the exact difficulty of the other three, but I bet this is pretty close.</p>
<p>2) were you better at calc than algebra, prefer 53 over 54, or just like the idea of going from least to greatest (just pretend 110 is actually 101)? yes: 104, no: 113</p>
<p>^I hated the computational aspects of 54, but I really enjoyed the concepts. With 53, I pretty much liked everything, but I feel like I can’t remember some the major details of the class at all (I took the class as a fall freshman and I"m currently a Spring sophomore). I’ve seriously forgotten some of the details in the big ticket vector calculus theorems like Stokes (I know that’s really embarrassing) and yet vector calculus was my favorite part. (I guess I can go review it since I still have the book).</p>