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>I'm not even sure if one of them is a course on the tripos.
How do you think I knew about them?
>it's useful to know major results from other branches of maths, so you're aware of them when they invariably come up.
It's even more useful to study linear algebra or complex analysis or diffeqs *properly* so you have more than just a passing familiarity of such basic concepts.
>Secondly, sore point?
Haha, w/e. I wasn't the "Bust my ass in school and get perfect grades so I can go to the hardest college" type, which is why I almost flunked out of my last year of high school lol.
>And well done for finding a paper in one subject, over 7 years that you think you could....well just about pass.
Or maybe I just clicked the first interesting test I saw in the first year on the list... ¬_¬
The tests on algebraic number theory (74) and algebraic geometry (14) are just as bad. I actually lol'd when I saw the first problem on the elliptic curves (19) test. As near as I can tell, though, 95% of the rest aren't even *math* tests.