Which of these maths would be most useful for me?

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<p>Prospective biochem, possibly biophysics or molecular bio, major. Maybe some sort of physics for a minor. </p>

<p>I'll be finishing up Calc II this quarter (integration, applications of fundamental theorem, seperable differential equations). After that, I'd like to further my mathematics in other subjects. Clearly, I only have so much time/space in a schedule, so I was wondering if anyone could help me prioritize these? </p>

<p>Calc III: infinite sequences/series, calc in polar coordinates, parametric equations, 3D vectors, multivariable integrals, partial derivatives)</p>

<p>Calc IV: double and triple integrals, green's, stroke's, and divergence theorems, intro to
2nd order differential equations</p>

<p>Statistics in Science/engineering: descriptive, conditional probability, independence, random variables, distribution functions, sampling errors, confidence intervals, least squares, maximum likelihood</p>

<p>Linear Algebra</p>

<p>Differential equations</p>

<p>And then there are also some engineering courses I could take (statics, dynamics, and mechanics of materials), but I don't think I could complete the series.</p>

<p>Right now I'm thinking....</p>

<p>Calc III
Calc IV
Stats
Differential equations
....
linear algebra
the engineering courses</p>

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<p>Statistics for majoring in biology or if you are a pre-med.</p>

<p>Calculus 3 and 4, linear algebra, and differential equations (and more advanced math courses) for majoring in physics or math.</p>

<p>Engineering courses are most useful if you want to major in the types of engineering that use them.</p>

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<p>Statistics always important. Then Calc III-IV and diff eq.</p>

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<p>For any science I recommend Statistics, Linear algebra, Calc III (in fact, I’d recommend more statistics, the kind that would be better done after linear algebra and calc III, but that’s just me).</p>

<p>Diff Eq, and Calc IV would be more for physics/engineering types (though differential equations do occur in biology, chemistry, and, well everywhere). In many ways it’s just more calculus, which, once you’ve done multivariable (calc III) is not that hard to grasp the basics if you encounter some diff eq or calc IV concepts in scientific applications. Which is why I put linear algebra before them. That is completely different and just as everywhere.</p>