Preparation for Maths at Uni!!

I really don't see the point in reading before uni begins. Everyone is going to be doing the same course material and attending the same lectures etc so there's no real advantage to be had.

But you are least distracted during the vacations. I always found that the time I least wanted to work was term time!

I really don't see the point in reading before uni begins. Everyone is going to be doing the same course material and attending the same lectures etc so there's no real advantage to be had.

It's not a case of gettin and advantage over other students but merely just tryin to get a feel of what a uni maths course entails!!!

Deep mathematical thought

Anyone here going Oxford Uni to study maths????

I'll hopefully be studying Physics @ Oxford in Oct! I know that isn't excatly Maths but it has a lot of Maths in it! So I'm keeping an eye on this thread for good maths books! lol. Hopefully my P4-P6 books will arrive some time this wk from amazon (I didn't do FM @ A-Level).

I'll hopefully be studying Physics @ Oxford in Oct! I know that isn't excatly Maths but it has a lot of Maths in it! So I'm keeping an eye on this thread for good maths books! lol. Hopefully my P4-P6 books will arrive some time this wk from amazon (I didn't do FM @ A-Level).

Physics @ oxford sounds like ur the next elpaw (female version!)

Those books are good...I ended up teaching myself most of Further Maths, mostly because of a shocking attendance record at lessons.

I'm hoping they'll be good! We used P1-P3, M1-2 & S1 at sch in single maths lesson, so I'm hoping they'll be valuable resources!

I'll hopefully be studying Physics @ Oxford in Oct! I know that isn't excatly Maths but it has a lot of Maths in it! So I'm keeping an eye on this thread for good maths books! lol. Hopefully my P4-P6 books will arrive some <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=time&v=56">time</a> this wk from <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=amazon&v=56">amazon</a> (I didn't do FM @ A-Level).

Hey hoofbeat!! Yep, from what i've heard physics will have its fair share of maths and i reckon you've got a gud plan there by ordering P4-P6 coz a lot of people i've spoken to who are gonna do physics at uni have started to look up mechanics books and stuff like that when really, i think, pure maths is gonna be the key! Not wanting to sound tooooooooo technical, but i've read the Oxford Maths booklet and it says that we learn about electromagnetism in the 3rd year and to deal with 'flux lines' we use Maxwell's partial differential eqn's which is pure stuff...........ok, i've bored u there right??!!!! Good luck with gettin the grades for Oxford, hope to see u there too!!

i thort we did electromag in the first year? I got given a booklet from St Hilda's (as they send me details of my open offer) with loads of maths questions to do and most of it is ure (P1-6) not Mechanics.

What <a href="http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=college&v=56">college</a> are you hoping to be studing physics at?

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