For those knee deep in math: As a first year, what books did you have to read for your uni, what classes to roll in, etc. It'd be nice if you mentioned your uni and what impression you had from the first year (difficulty/etc)
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Anonymous2011-04-27 16:52
First year I had Calc 1/Calc 2
Calc 1 EZ as shit. If you have trouble then you either have a bad teacher or you're doing it wrong.
Calc 2 on the other hand, is a fucking DEMON. Be prepared to think your ass off, and still get nowhere, due to Taylor Polynomials and Power Sums.
Of course, this was all at Western Michigan University, so that may put you off a little bit. The book that we got is called "University Calculus: Elements" by Hass, Weir, and Thomas... It's a custom edition for my Uni, though. It's also a piece of shit.