Your first REAL math course

I always considered my first real math course to be Calc I or Calc II simply because it is the first time you deal with infinity.  Limits, etc.  Everything before that I don't really consider math.  When speaking with a professor recently, however, he mentioned that he thought the first real math course people had in life was matrix theory.  I can see why he said this as it does start to deal with theory and abstract concepts way more, but I don't know if I agree with that...


What are your thoughts?  What do you consider the first real math course?

Calc I.  Definitely.  It was the first time a math course ever required that I think.

What if you suck at everything that comes before calc or matrices?

>>3

Then you major in Psychology or Sociology or some bull.

>>4

Or elementary education, in my school.  Which explains a lot about the general quality of teachers...  All the stupid ones give the few excellent ones a bad name.

triginometry was pretty nuts, i never liked it.dropped out really quick,since i only need geometry..........

discrete math.
calc and matrices is for noobs

functional analysis.

discrete math is for newbs

STATS IS NOT CONSIDERED MATH.

>>7

Discrete math is a piece of intuitive cake.  I found calc 2 to be far more difficult.

Then again, I also taught quite a bit of discrete math and formal language theory as a grad student...

>>10
... in mexico I should add.

So if I hate Trigonometry can I do well in Calculus?

no

i agree with >>8 .  complex analysis is noob shit next to that.

>>12 you will fail miserably and will have to suck dick to pass like the rest of the dumb bitches in your class

>>14
i agree with >>7 .  functional analysis is noob shit next to that.
fixed.

>>4
How do I followed instructions?
For the non-geniuses among /sci/ all that's required in any math that concerns you is the ability to follow instructions. Critical thinking skills and the ability to analyze and define the intangible-- qualitatively rather than quantitatively-- as required of GOOD psychologists > math.

ITT: babby math

Is this board full of high schoolers or what?

algebra is a geometry for euler.

Looking back, my first taste of math was geometry. The pons asinorum, the impossibility of trisection, and in general the rigorous axiomatic approach. Then we made the geometry analytic, and created trigonometry, functions, and even a little bit of calculus.

First year math went back to the Peano axioms and (re)built calculus from scratch.

Abstract algebra was a shit-zebrony on meth.

First real math: gr. 10.