Maths Uni Chat

Successful day in the casino, took £120 came back with £100. Spent £20 for 2 x poker tournaments (£20 each) 2 meals (£20) a few drinks (£10) and a fiver tip for the VERY ATTRACTIVE dealer who was giving me good cards at blackjack. Which works out to me winning around 50 on blackjack then :smile:

Not bad.

As for the maths, I'm wide awake (as its 7am so i always am :biggrin:

) and my brains wide awake! So i'm feeling prepared :smile:

And yes simplicity I am addicted to gambling but I'm not stupid with it.
(Do you think peter neals had a problem with gambling in the past? The way he talks about using stats to win money in the first few lectures he sounded like he had o.O)

Reply 1562

Hathlan

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ste0731

Successful day in the casino, took £120 came back with £100. Spent £20 for 2 x poker tournaments (£20 each) 2 meals (£20) a few drinks (£10) and a fiver tip for the VERY ATTRACTIVE dealer who was giving me good cards at blackjack. Which works out to me winning around 50 on blackjack then :smile:

Not bad.

As for the maths, I'm wide awake (as its 7am so i always am :biggrin:

) and my brains wide awake! So i'm feeling prepared :smile:

And yes simplicity I am addicted to gambling but I'm not stupid with it.
(Do you think peter neals had a problem with gambling in the past? The way he talks about using stats to win money in the first few lectures he sounded like he had o.O)

Something about this post makes me want to remove your spleen with a blunt object. No offense. Sorry.

Reply 1563

Simplicity

OP

The only question I got wrong was this

\int \frac{(x-4)}{(x^2+x-2)}

I put a stupid anwser which didn't make logical sense. If it actually meant something to do good on this paper I might be annoyed.

But, yeah I was blinded by beauty instead of logic. As

ln(\frac{(x+2)^2}{|x-1|}) + c

looks ugly as an anwser, but

0.5ln|x^2 + x -2| - 8 sin^{-1}(x+\frac{1}{2}) +c

doesn't.

What was I thinking, I wasen't thinking as yeah looking at the integral list I should have concluded that wasen't it. But, lol. Now I'm a bit annoyed.

Reply 1564

I left that question blank, and 1 other.
So I got erm 24/30 max. But one defo wrong = 20/30 and I think another 3 marker wrong so 17/30 :/

Reply 1565

Hathlan

Something about this post makes me want to remove your spleen with a blunt object. No offense. Sorry.

Why's that?

Reply 1566

Hedgeman49

Why did this thread die? How very odd.

Reply 1567

SimonM

Hedgeman49

Why did this thread die? How very odd.

I don't consider the thread dead by a long shot.

Anyway, first terms are coming to a close. What are peoples' thoughts?

Reply 1568

around

13

I love groups. And Saxl.

But not in the same way I love groups.

Reply 1569

Dadeyemi

13

Saxl probably was the funniest lecturer though very hard to follow at times, I don't think I like groups as much as I did at the start of term purely out of boredom from the "list all _______" questions of which there were seemingly >= 9000 in ES2 and ES3 (haven't started ES4 yet so it has some chance of redemption). I think I probably liked N&S the best, it had the most interesting example sheets.

Applied modules were dull.

Reply 1570

My Alt

Naw DEs was great, especially the last few lectures.

Reply 1571

assmaster

1

5 days of lectures/tutorials left, I chose my new room today and I'm on the top floor in a single room with more than 15cm of rail space in the wardrobe!

Reply 1572

Swayum

I met a bunch of you Oxbridge lot at a Bright Networking event yesterday. Any of you TSRians there by chance?

Reply 1573

nota bene

15

We've got a very annoying computing coursework due Monday, which I'm just about starting and it's a pain... I applied to do maths for a reason - I do not like computers (or programming!).

Apart from this it's all going quite alright, with the exception of Algebra, but that should be alright once I sit down and do 50hrs of work on it over christmas...

Reply 1574

I'm suprised at how much I'm liking sets numbers and functions over calculas. The whole course is really quite fascinating when I look back and what I've learnt and I'm really enjoying the last 2-3 weeks of the course :smile:

I think if we had a better calculas lecturer, it'd be better :/

And I'm sick of filling in feedback forms for the lecturers :p:

Reply 1575

Simplicity

OP

around

I love groups. And Saxl.

But not in the same way I love groups.

You do groups in the first year?

As yeah, I don't do that intill the second year. However, there is a third year module called group theory.

ste0731

I'm suprised at how much I'm liking sets numbers and functions over calculas. The whole course is really quite fascinating when I look back and what I've learnt and I'm really enjoying the last 2-3 weeks of the course

Monday was awful. I came out of the lecture knowing less, which I thought would be impossible as its two hours.

SimonM

I don't consider the thread dead by a long shot.

Anyway, first terms are coming to a close. What are peoples' thoughts?

Mathematics section is pretty dead, so if this is dying it will die a slow painful death. I don't know why this can't be sticked.

That the first term has been a joke. Everything is to easy. Its a joke,. I hope to god that it gets harder next term but I doubt it will. Aparently the second year is meant to be hard. Although, the second year would be fun as then I can actually choose what I want to study,.

Reply 1576

SimonM

Simplicity

You do groups in the first year?

As yeah, I don't do that intill the second year. However, there is a third year module called group theory.

Yes, we also do Analysis in the first year. (Something I know many other universities don't do properly)

Mathematics section is pretty dead, so if this is dying it will die a slow painful death. I don't know why this can't be sticked.

DFranklin said that if this thread was popular enough, it would stay high enough.

Stickies tend to be things which don't get posted in often but are useful to everyone (as resources rather than chat)

Reply 1577

Simplicity

OP

SimonM

Yes, we also do Analysis in the first year. (Something I know many other universities don't do properly)

DFranklin said that if this thread was popular enough, it would stay high enough.

Stickies tend to be things which don't get posted in often but are useful to everyone (as resources rather than chat)

Well, depends on the focus. A lot of unis don't teach students linear algebra properly intill the second year, which doesn't make sense.

I still don't see why this can't be sticked.

Reply 1578

SimonM