What UMS did you get in maths?

Do maths at Leeds, just a bit of advice though, Degree level Maths makes A levels look like a walk in the park, like literally if it were a dog, it would **** all over A levels.
Just make sure you pick Maths because you're passionate about it, and have that end goal to get you through it, don't pick it cause you're good at it.

*gulp*

Will be doing Pure Maths G110. I am going to be SOOOOO out of my depth

Haha was just gonna reply to you.




Just make sure you know what you're getting yourself into! Pure Maths is nothing like any of the Mathematics A level modules, I know personally I thought all the Core units were pure, but they're not, they're applied, I had Liverpool as my insurance for Pure Maths :P woulda been ****ed if I didn't get into my firm xD.

Oh my gosh... I find this out NOW? So C1/2/3/4 are applied? I thought they were pure! I'm so confused, can you explain? I thought Mechanics and Stats are the applied ones .... ?

Oh my gosh... I find this out NOW? So C1/2/3/4 are applied? I thought they were pure! I'm so confused, can you explain? I thought Mechanics and Stats are the applied ones .... ?

Don't worry too much, because you can always change to normal Maths once you get to Uni, but Pure Maths is basically all Proofs and theorems, like a question like:

Prove from first principles that a sequence converges to ...
Prove that a series converges...
Prove that root 2 is irrational

^That would be pure.

Stuff like Differential equations, all the C1/2/3/4 + mechanics comes under Applied Maths
Stats comes under Stats :P

You can get a really really good idea of what Pure maths is by reading 'A concise introduction to Pure Mathematics' by Martin Liebeck.

I'll have a go at explaining this. I've studied a year of both pure and applied maths at university now. Essentially pure maths is like a very thorough version of your core maths at A level, you might have been shown some proofs of basic theorems at school. Pure mathematics takes nothing (very little, only some axioms) for granted and builds very slowly upon them. For example it might take you a whole year of real analysis (one of the biggest topics in undergraduate maths) to define differentiation and prove simple facts like the chain rule. However there is more to a maths degree than just pure. You will probably also do some work which has no proof yet, eg I learned multivariate calculus but we won't prove it until next year. That is probably most like your core at a level. Then there is applied, which is probably a lot like at a level, although there is emphasis on general results, but you don't build it up like in pure maths, you often state theorems which have been proved elsewhere so that you can use them.

Got an offer to study physics at MIT

I really, really don't understand. I think I've made a very big mistake.
I chose Pure Maths because I thought Pure was the same as Core, that's what everyone told me My teachers called S1 and M1 the "applied modules".
Oh my goodness, what have I done! None of this makes sense.

The pure Maths modules I've done this year consist of Number systems (so about reals, rationals, integers...) and Sets, sequences and series (self explanatory) meaning I've only done two, so fGDu will prob be of more help considering he's gonna be starting third year now.
It honestly isn't the end of the world though, as long as you still want to do maths, you could change to a normal G100 course once you're at Uni, and depending on the Uni, you could then from second year just specialise.
I STRONGLY suggest having a read of the book I mentioned in my post, it really does give you an idea of what Pure Maths is.
Btw what Uni is this? didn't you like specialise your ps to Pure maths/ read any maths books?