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Well done, naming two very much optional courses, which are quite specialised in their scope, proves your point exactly. I'm not even sure if one of them is a course on the tripos.
"A one semester applied course that gives a short, watered down treatment of the major points of a half dozen low-level undergrad courses."
That seems exactly what you would need (excepting the weasel words) thanks for basically explaining my point, it's useful to know major results from other branches of maths, so you're aware of them when they invariably come up.
Secondly, sore point?
I obviously didn't have trouble with them as I passed them quite well, I was merely commenting that your entire degree boiling down to 12 hours of work is un-representative.
And well done for finding a paper in one subject, over 7 years that you think you could....well just about pass.