Is Mathematics at Cambridge the hardest undergraduate degree in the world?

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Maths is easy.

Yeah it's just like adding and stuff. Why anyone would do a degree in adding numbers together beats me

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Reply 41

alow

Original post by TurboCretin

An undergraduate degree that only accepts graduates? That sounds like cheating.

Anyway, by that logic you end up with the same degree as an undergraduate medic, meaning that 'graduate entry medicine' isn't a degree in its own right, but a stream.

It's more to widen access to medicine than anything else.

You get the same degree as an undergrad, you just take less time to do it: 4 years instead of 5 or 6.

Reply 42

Arieisit

Original post by Tuya

Apologies, I didn't make this very clear :colondollar:

, IITs offer primarily Engineering disciplines, including Computer science and physics, some of which are very similar to maths.
I was just making the point that there are many unis (especially in Asian countries known for having high academic expectations, like China or India) that most of us in the west are unaware of - but certainly have harder working students than Cam' undergrads.

How do you know they work harder? Have any of them done maths at Cam + did an engineering degree at one of these said universities?

Reply 43

Arieisit

Original post by PC2852

Maths is easy.

Of course it is :colonhash:

, not at Cambridge though :smile:

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Reply 44

1219269

From what I gather if you get into Cambridge for maths you are considered "godly"

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Reply 45

Noble.

Original post by majmuh24

Try proving Fermat's Last Theorem and then come back here :tongue:

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Nevermind FLT, PC2852 would probably struggle to prove a basic result like a continuous function on a closed, bounded interval is bounded and attains its bounds :lol:

Reply 46

Arieisit

Original post by majmuh24

He's probably reading this now and thinking "What the hell is this guy on about" :smile:

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So am I

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Reply 47

Arieisit

Original post by Audi

From what I gather if you get into Cambridge for maths you are considered "godly"

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Yep and the ones at Oxford are considered angels like Noble :rolleyes:

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Reply 48

Boy_wonder_95

Original post by Forum User

I found Maths at Cam pretty tough, but then again I lost interest in Maths somewhere during the first year. My girlfriend has a Maths degree from MIT, and did a few classes across the river at Harvard, but she seems to know way less Maths than I do. So there is some anecdotal evidence in support of the proposition.

I can also confirm, in case it was in doubt, that Maths at Cambridge is much harder than Law at BPP (doing a second degree there currently)

What made you lose interest in Maths?

Reply 49

MJ1012

Original post by Lucy96

I respect anyone who does Maths at any university, if I'm honest.

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A level maths is impressive to me :colondollar:

Reply 50

Noble.

Original post by Arieisit

Yep and the ones at Oxford are considered angels like Noble :rolleyes:

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I'm Chief Rabbi.

Reply 51

danny111

Original post by Arieisit

Oh I'm sorry, did you read an essay subject at uni? :colonhash:

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No.

But I have an open mind, and I'm not ignorant. Are you good at maths? Does that validate your otherwise measly live?

Reply 52

danny111

Original post by majmuh24

Try proving Fermat's Last Theorem and then come back here :tongue:

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Can you prove that? Otherwise pretty pointless to throw names around. Plus he was probably just yanking your chain anyhow.

Reply 53

ClickItBack

Original post by StudiousMedic

Mathematics at Cambridge is widely considered to be one of the most challenging undergraduate degrees in the UK, if not the world. Of course, the matter is entirely subjective and relative to the individual but, do you think it would be fair to give it this title? Or can you think of more challenging courses, for example, Math 55, at Harvard? Although, that's not exactly a degree in itself.

Math 55 sounds INSANE and a good deal harder than the Cambridge course, though as you say, it's not a degree per se. Also its size in most years is about 20 or less, so extremely selective (apparently a few US Olympiad type people can't hack it), compared to the ~250 at Cambridge.

IIT isn't really comparable to any pure maths degree, though I'm prepared to believe they are harder than the engineering course at (say) Cambridge.

Reply 54

Noble.

Original post by ClickItBack

I swear we've been posting in the exact same threads for a good two weeks now :tongue:

Reply 55

danny111

Original post by majmuh24

Didn't say that I could, but Noble gave a pretty good example of a question, why dont you check that out :tongue:

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Fairly certain at some point I have done that particular result. But the point was how can tell him to do something in a field he knows nothing of if not even you could do it who has knowledge of said field.

Reply 56

ClickItBack

Original post by Noble.

I swear we've been posting in the exact same threads for a good two weeks now :tongue:

Yeah I've noticed that too. I also keep wanting to +rep your posts but it usually has me on a cooldown timer :smile:

Reply 57

Juichiro

Original post by StudiousMedic

Sup with this masochism on hard degrees? Harder does not mean better. :fyi:

Reply 58

Juichiro

Original post by alow

Yeah I agree that an accelerated medicine course probably has an insane amount of content, but there are probably more people who could complete it than Mathematics at Cambridge.

What makes you think that (apart from the fact that you obviously love Cambridge)?

Reply 59

KD35

Maths is a very hard degree in my opinion and while it was one of my favourite subjects at A-level, I didn't pick it as it's one of the worst in terms of effort put into degree versus future prospects.