There's more than one, I hear enough fucking /b/ memes.
Name:
CSharp!FFI4Mmahuk2008-03-28 16:54
>>9
I do everything on the toilet. Do math, do chemistry, read novels, everything.
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-28 21:44
>>10
A mate and I noticed a few as we went down to London on the 15th. It was pretty depressing though, pretty typical all style no substance newfags.
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-29 10:40
warwick
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-29 12:55
>>13
Was my second choice, couple of years ago. Very nice looking campus. Sometimes I wonder if I would have enjoyed uni a lot more there, what with the maths being comparatively piss-easy. Then I buckles up and stop being a pussy.
Three A's, maths, further maths and physics. Did fuck all work, cause there's really only one subject there.
A levels aren't really that important, you do a seperate test called STEP which is the real clincher.
You'd be suprised at how bad at maths some people doing maths at cambridge are.
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-30 21:38
I wish I knew how to efficiently teach myself Maths on my own time
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-31 3:51
>You'd be suprised at how bad at maths some people doing maths at cambridge are.
you'd be surprised how bad people are at math people in math programs anywhere you go. people who did great in trigonometry show up and refuse to change their major when they can't do a proof and can't comprehend implication.
>I wish I knew how to efficiently teach myself Maths on my own time
are you interested in pure or applied?
Name:
Anonymous2008-03-31 9:09
M.I.T.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-01 17:32
The intellectual snobbishness of MIT, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford corrupt their ability to teach maths. They are more interested in self-aggrandisement than actually creating generations of completely informed productive graduates, they are completely narrow minded with a notoriously restrictive peer review system that has recently gained a reputation of dismissing some of the world's most important discoveries whilst at the same time pretending the efforts of their students are the most epic greatest thing "evar" even though they reveal themselves not to be particularly revolutionary once the hype dies down. You will want to go to a good university, but one which bases it's success on the quality of it's education and not the brand name it puts on it's certificates.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-01 17:47
>>5
I thought they made the course as obtuse as possible in order to weed out those who wouldnt do well at PhD?
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-01 18:14
>>21
Couldn't get into MIT, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge or Oxford.
Doesn't seem it to me. It seems like they place a lot of emphasis on abstraction and pathological cases, but that's how you learn shit.
I do mostly pure courses as well, so it's no suprise.
The main difference is that you're supervised and lectured by very intelligent people, and the questions you are given are not generally aimed to help you pass an exam, they're given because they're "interesting" cases mathematically.
My 1A Probability supervisor insisted that if X and Y are independent, then X and X + Y are independent.
My Numerical Analysis supervisor once insisted that, for all integers k and n, i^(k - n) = i^n, or something equivalently ludicrous.
Also, both female.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-02 14:19
In a cave where you can't see the light behind you.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-02 14:20
Intellectual snobbery finds itself in the highest circles of the state.
"Her academic background chided against an empirical, if not philosophical, tradition that had gained momentum since the late 1970’s of appointing justices who had received their collegiate, legal, and other graduate education at elite institutions. At the time of her nomination, all sitting justices hailed from leading law schools (specifically: Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Northwestern and Stanford), and all but Justice Thomas had attended prominent colleges."
You might argue that this only proves it is better to get into one of the elite colleges/universities, but all it proves is that they depend more on titles than their ability to educate. Be sure to jokingly mention to your employer informally "I know you've probably never heard of this university, but this isn't the middle ages, we judge people by merit nowadays" or something to that measure.
Women are shit at maths anyway.
Maybe you're just at a shit college which doesn't have good fellows/post-grads to teach you, if you will apply to Homerton....
It's certainly the women who've made the worst mistakes for us :D
Clare usually gives pretty good supervisors (inc. the great Prof Thomason) but seriously, that i^(k-n) one... I mean c'mon...
That's probably why what, 6 out of the 7 english IMO competitors came to cambridge (Trinity) to study maths, whereas the other one is studying maths with philosophy at oxford.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-07 10:49
>>33
IMO competitors are all dickwads. I leave them in the dust, and I have no reason to even attend BMO, INCLUDING JACK.
>>32
I heard a straight A student (all through school) economics student at cambridge describe the course as "brutally mathematical" and "grulingly competitive".
Wether these things turn you on is your choice.
Don't feel bad, I only got a bronze in the first round.
Although it could be worse, I could have gone to oxford to do maths.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-07 15:36
Cambridge/Harvard/Oxford/Yale graduates earn 6 figures guaranteed, but I don't know any super rich graduates. This friend of my dad's was a rugby player in his 20s and then went on to become a landlord using extortion and the threat of eviction within the law to cut costs. He is now worth over £5000000 ($10000000), still in his 40s and has only been in prison once for breaking someone's collar bone. Most super-rich entrepeneurs just went to a standard business school and aren't really spectacularly rich compared to Harvard business school graduates even though supposedly Harvard graduates have more cash to begin with.
>>38
This may come as a surprise to you, but not many people on the MATH and SCIENCE board are going to BUSINESS school.
Name:
Anonymous2008-04-08 5:03
>>39
It is a suprise. I find the idea that they would deny themselves marketable skills absurd! Only a complete idiot believes that all the money spent on their education is for their own self enrichment and not a means to contribute to the economy (making money instantly means you have contributed to the economy and do not owe anyone anything).