<p>If one where to know multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations already, what math class should he or she take freshman year? Should he or she take any placement tests?</p>
<p>I think its amazing you know all of that at university level. You have to prove you know them by taking the CASE exam during orientation, although I’m not sure if you can take them for linear algebra or differential equations, because those aren’t typical freshman classes.</p>
<p>I’ve only finished multivariable calculus at the moment. I got through it in 3 weeks so I’m assuming I can finish the rest (note: not engineering applied mathematics). I’m just wondering if its worth it to test out of classes. I really don’t know what to expect at the higher level mathematics courses.</p>
<p>Email the math department (prepare to send a syllabus/what level you know the topics) and see what they have to say because most people do not place this highly during freshman year. You also still might get a lot out of 2230-2240.</p>
<p>You can’t take the CASE for lin alg or diffeq here. Also, our intro diffeq covers certain topics that aren’t covered in most other colleges but leaves out some topics that are covered, so be careful. </p>
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<p>That’s good advice to follow- I got credit for math 1920 and chem 3000 when I sent in my past coursework, so just shoot them an email.</p>
<p>“because most people do not place this highly during freshman year”</p>
<p>Isn’t Cornell an Ivy league? I’m assuming most people might even know the entire course material before the academic year.</p>
<p>Would I get a good judgment of my knowledge by looking at past Cornell prelim exams???</p>
<p>“I’ve only finished multivariable calculus at the moment. I got through it in 3 weeks so I’m assuming I can finish the rest (note: not engineering applied mathematics). I’m just wondering if its worth it to test out of classes. I really don’t know what to expect at the higher level mathematics courses.”</p>
<p>You probably don’t know it at the level of MATH 2220 then (and almost certainly not at the level of 2230/2240). I had taken all of those as actual classes (through HS or online) and I can attest that the college courses are fairly different. However, the good thing is that for differential equations, you don’t need to take it twice - instead you can go straight to Partial Differential Equations.</p>
<p>I’ve been studying through [Pauls</a> Online Notes : Calculus III](<a href=“http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcIII/CalcIII.aspx]Pauls”>http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcIII/CalcIII.aspx) and MIT courseware.</p>
<p>Are you an engineer or a math major?
If you are a math major, definitely take the honors math sequence: 2230-40.</p>
<p>If you an engineer and you really think you know the material well, take 2230-40.
If you don’t think you know all the material, try to place out of 1920 and take 2940 in the fall.
As for diff eq, 2930 covers 2nd order homogeneous and non-homogenous diff eqs, fourier series, heat eq, wave eq, and laplace eq. If you know all those really well, you don’t need to take 2930 (though I am not sure if you can officially get credit for it) and you can take an upper level diff eq course (there are a few options for this). If you don’t know all of those really well, take 2930 in the spring. It will probably be easy if you have some background already.</p>