What is the big thing in Math

Hi,

I am in biochemistry and I am wondering what people are studying in math these days.  Everything I learned in math class was proven hundreds of years ago.

Okay, if you could leave some examples in layman's terms that would be good.

Thanks.

Lol I'm not sure if there's any current research that could bedescribed at all to someone who only knows calculus, at least that I know of.

It's different from other sciences in that since nothing really gets discarded, you almost have to know everything that's happened in the past to be able understand what's being done in the present. :/

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so aren't you going to hit a limit then

I mena people don't live forever you know.

/thread

hmm well I know there is a class at my college called topology...I even attended a presentation about it once and it was pretty crazy, but then again I'm in calculus 1 right now. Apparently there are questions under topology that are unanswered and my professor was actually trying to solve them...
Math wise I don't think people really go past the basics of calculus tho. We just started anti derivatives and we are going to continue on integrals on monday. We still do L' Hospitals rule for limits, area under curves, optimization, exponential growth, derivatives, curve sketching...

Well just some info on what we do in cal. 1 lol

hmm well I know there is a class at my college called topology...I even attended a presentation about it once and it was pretty crazy, but then again I'm in calculus 1 right now. Apparently there are questions under topology that are unanswered and my professor was actually trying to solve them...
Math wise I don't think people really go past the basics of calculus tho. We just started anti derivatives and we are going to continue on integrals on monday. We still do L' Hospitals rule for limits, area under curves, optimization, exponential growth, derivatives, curve sketching...

Well just some info on what we do in cal. 1 lol

sry never posted in these threads before...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_of_mathematics

There's probably active researchers in most of these.

topology is a big field, it ranges from points and sets to string theory

there's no "layman's" terminology for mathematics, people dont walk around with a basic understanding of mathematics like they do with chemistry and biology.

if you want to study math with a manifestation in the real world, study physics instead, it describes things that 'happen'

Tropical algebra/geometry

Certain areas within topology

Fractals

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>> Tropical algebra/geometry
i wrote my undergrad thesis on that, but i doubt any serious mathematicians work on that stuff

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the applied math crowd work on algorithms and simulating models on computers.