Maths Uni Chat

Reply 5780

Gesar

1

I did optimisation, Markov Chains and Statistics. Total marks: 0.

Reply 5781

meatball893

11

Original post by Piecewise

*Subscribes to the thread...*

Reply 5782

assmaster

1

Oh dear, heavy one last night. It was a radio exec social, and the girls were telling guys various stories about getting hit on by drunken creepy men, all the guys were doubting this happened, and then... it happened. Three times in one night. And now I log into Facebook to see someone posted "Official cock magnet" on my wall. ARGH!? My sister can see that!
At one point, they were trying to get me to do the splits in the middle of Klute. No, just no.

Reply 5783

Meteorshower

14

Started new courses. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics is pretty sweet

Reply 5784

Slumpy

16

Original post by assmaster

Oh dear, heavy one last night. It was a radio exec social, and the girls were telling guys various stories about getting hit on by drunken creepy men, all the guys were doubting this happened, and then... it happened. Three times in one night. And now I log into Facebook to see someone posted "Official cock magnet" on my wall. ARGH!? My sister can see that!
At one point, they were trying to get me to do the splits in the middle of Klute. No, just no.

I still need to hit up klute before my friend graduates. Is it as bad as all that?

Reply 5785

meatball893

11

Today I had the last lecture in Linear Algebra this term from Peter Neumann. He's such a good lecturer... :frown:

We're about to start Groups, Rings and Fields; hopefully it will be as good :smile:

Reply 5786

Cass999

Hi
Can any Part 11 Maths people give me some idea of what the Part 11 Catam projects are like.

I've obviously done the first two for IB, are the Part II ones likely to take the same amount of time? (I hadn't done any programming before Catam).

Is it possible to do them over the summer to get them out of the way or are the lecture courses needed. I know it depends on preferences etc, but are there any you would recommend or avoid?

Many thanks

Reply 5787

Gesar

1

You need to know the material. But, you can learn the lecture courses over the summer as well!

And so far, imo, they're weird. Some are ridiculously difficult, some are really easy.

Reply 5788

boromir9111

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Original post by Meteorshower

Started new courses. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics is pretty sweet

That sounds so sweet......I don't understand Jacobian and why we use it :s-smilie:

Reply 5789

harr

15

Original post by Cass999

Is it possible to do them over the summer to get them out of the way or are the lecture courses needed.

Quite a few of them can be done with IB knowledge or even IA knowledge. They say at the top.

I can't answer your other questions since I haven't done any yet.

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Reply 5790

ambience

11

How easy is it at Cambridge to get supervised for a course 'above' the year you're in, in a term when it's not being lectured? Does it depend on college? How often does it happen?

ambie

Reply 5791

Meteorshower

14

Original post by boromir9111

That sounds so sweet......I don't understand Jacobian and why we use it :s-smilie:

Yeah, although at the moment i'm trying to prove that the shortest path between two points on a plane is a straight line :p:

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Reply 5792

Simplicity

OP

17

Original post by Meteorshower

Yeah, although at the moment i'm trying to prove that the shortest path between two points on a plane is a straight line :p:

That's easy. You just use the triangle equality with induction.

Reply 5793

Meteorshower

14

Original post by Simplicity

That's easy. You just use the triangle equality with induction.

We have to do it using the principle of least action.

Reply 5794

boromir9111

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Original post by Meteorshower

Yeah, although at the moment i'm trying to prove that the shortest path between two points on a plane is a straight line :p:

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

You mean this?

Reply 5795

wanderlust.xx

18

Why is group theory such a pain in the arse? I've never had such a difficulty studying for an area of maths...

Time to get some books with questions and answers to see what the hell is going on. Damn incompetent lecturer.

Reply 5796

boromir9111

17

Original post by wanderlust.xx

Why is group theory such a pain in the arse? I've never had such a difficulty studying for an area of maths...

Time to get some books with questions and answers to see what the hell is going on. Damn incompetent lecturer.