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Omg I can't believe you tagged me :O cos that means you've finally shown a sine of acknowledging my existence! What progress(ion)! :heart:
Original post by Sonechka
Omg I can't believe you tagged me :O cos that means you've finally shown a sine of acknowledging my existence! What progress(ion)! :heart:


did you ask me to tag you just so you could make that horrifying pun
Original post by _gcx
did you ask me to tag you just so you could make that horrifying pun


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Original post by _gcx

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You have Quora on that list but you don't have Reddit. :confused:
Original post by num.7
You have Quora on that list but you don't have Reddit. :confused:


Yeah I suppose there's /r/6thform but I can't really think of any other useful subs but I'll add it when I get to it. Quora is actually quite good for maths though it does attract some particularly low quality answers.
Original post by _gcx
Yeah I suppose there's /r/6thform but I can't really think of any other useful subs but I'll add it when I get to it. Quora is actually quite good for maths though it does attract some particularly low quality answers.


/r/math, no?

By the way, why do you have a passion for maths?
Original post by num.7
/r/math, no?

By the way, why do you have a passion for maths?


i have never actually used /r/math so idk how useful it is.

I find the subject legitimately interesting and I enjoy it a great deal. Maths is a subject like no other in many ways. Contained with it are some of the most beautiful and elegant one can observe.
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Original post by num.7
/r/math, no?

By the way, why do you have a passion for maths?


What is TSR's obsession with leddit.

Original post by _gcx
Hi there! My name's George and I'm a student going into year 12 with a particular interest in maths. I thought I'd jump on the current trend of these threads and create my own. :h: I created two GYGs previously but they died due to lack of interest in my part. Hopefully this will not be subject to a similar fate.

note: this OP is really unfinished

Boring things

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My interests within mathematics

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To do

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Aspirations

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Resources

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Anything that's not maths?

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people who wanted me to tag them,

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It's a shame you don't want to do FP2, where you actually do group theory and number theory (mod arithmetic), fermat's little <3. I'm actually looking forward to it. Nice way to end A Level Further maths - actually doing fun stuff. I'm just not 100% sure if my school offer it (they really should).

I was scrolling through what's in cambridge course and found the lecture notes for IA groups. The first chapter is surprisingly quite accessible. As I got towards the end of the first chapter, I just got confused and left it there, Past the first chapter, I don't know what the **** is going on . But I like the way it sets out everything and proves results immediately and is quite concise and dense. If you want to get a grip on group theory (and non-applied modular arithmetic), I would recommend the first 80% of the first chapter on that link. You've given a lot of resources, so I feel as if I have to give one to you.

The prospect of academia never really appealed to me. But maybe that'll change.

Good luck with your hopefully somewhat remarkable ventures.

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Original post by Eulogy
What is TSR's obsession with leddit.



It's a shame you don't want to do FP2, where you actually do group theory and number theory (mod arithmetic), fermat's little <3. I'm actually looking forward to it. Nice way to end A Level Further maths - actually doing fun stuff. I'm just not 100% sure if my school offer it (they really should).

I was scrolling through what's in cambridge course and found the lecture notes for IA groups. The first chapter is surprisingly quite accessible. As I got towards the end of the first chapter, I just got confused and left it there, Past the first chapter, I don't know what the **** is going on . But I like the way it sets out everything and proves results immediately and is quite concise and dense. If you want to get a grip on group theory (and non-applied modular arithmetic), I would recommend the first 80% of the first chapter on that link. You've given a lot of resources, so I feel as if I have to give one to you.

The prospect of academia never really appealed to me. But maybe that'll change.

Good luck with your hopefully somewhat remarkable ventures.

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I doubt that my school will offer FP2. That's fair enough I suppose, though, as it comprises almost solely new content, and hence would be intimidating for schools to teach, preferring the more familiar content of FM1/FS1 etc., unless a school previously taught OCR MEI I suppose. It would be a pain in the arse to convince my school to enter me for FP2, so if I end up doing FP1/FM1 I wouldn't be too fussed, though I probably will be learning the content.

I've had a brief skim over those notes and I do very much appreciate the inclusion of proofs. Not sure if I've really talked about it here, but the lack of rigour and proof in A-level/GCSE mathematics really grinds my gears because it encourages mindless computation and memorisation as opposed to actual maths. Yeah I'll be working on the resource list a bit more when more pop to mind.

Academia is the only thing that I can envisage doing right now but that may well change through the course of a-level/uni. Thank you, good luck in yours too :h:

Yeah I kind of abandoned compsci. I was originally shooting for a maths and compsci degree, but I found myself becoming more interested in maths. Learning to program was too slow-paced for me, and I ended up losing interest unfortunately.
Update 1 (I guess?)

Tomorrow is enrolment day, and I can imagine my chemistry and physics teachers both being particularly disappointed that I didn't get an A* in their respective subjects, that only hit me recently lol. I also failed to do any further reading in physics as I planned to, so I can expect an unforgiving lecture. At least I'm pretty set on my options now, unless I have a sudden revelation, or I'm suddenly told that I can take RS/philsophy at a partner school despite no contact in regards to that for 8 months or so.

Now the slightly less (or immensely more, depending on how you're inclined) boring stuff,

Differential Equations

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Fourier series'

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tagging people who might be vaguely interested,

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You're passion for maths is amazing. We're taking the same A levels apart from history swapped with chemistry for me. Could you tag me in your future posts? I'm looking forward to following :smile:
Original post by Tormund
You're passion for maths is amazing. We're taking the same A levels apart from history swapped with chemistry for me. Could you tag me in your future posts? I'm looking forward to following :smile:


I was originally going to take maths, further maths, physics and chemistry, but seeing as I got nearly full UMS in history, I was compelled to take it at A-level. I do hope that it's not a boring slog however. I can always swap to chemistry if it's too boring. Yup, sure! :h:
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Update 2

Not a productive day at all by any means. I finally confirmed my options, so I'm definitely doing maths, further maths, physics and history. I should find what units I'm doing for further maths and history shortly into the term. I seem to remember Nazi Germany and Ireland with history, but the further maths units were not decided the last I spoke with my teacher, Let's just hope that it's a tolerable combination. I was originally planning to do RS as my fourth subject, so I put it down back in like, February, but I received no contact in regards to it since then. Apparently the partner school didn't get enough students to run it, but they didn't actually tell me until I went to finalise my choices. Loving the organisation on the part of my school :rofl: In regards to work, I did quite little.

Maths

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And that's pretty much it. Briefly looked over the physics spec just to say that I have actually looked at some physics. I also need to actually finish the OP at some point.

tags,

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Original post by _gcx
Update 2

Not a productive day at all by any means. I finally confirmed my options, so I'm definitely doing maths, further maths, physics and history. I should find what units I'm doing for further maths and history shortly into the term. I seem to remember Nazi Germany and Ireland with history, but the further maths units were not decided the last I spoke with my teacher, Let's just hope that it's a tolerable combination. I was originally planning to do RS as my fourth subject, so I put it down back in like, February, but I received no contact in regards to it since then. Apparently the partner school didn't get enough students to run it, but they didn't actually tell me until I went to finalise my choices. Loving the organisation on the part of my school :rofl: In regards to work, I did quite little.

Maths

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And that's pretty much it. Briefly looked over the physics spec just to say that I have actually looked at some physics. I also need to actually finish the OP at some point.

tags,

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You've done so much work for maths, it's really making me feel inadequate. I got my timetable today though so I know when my frees are so perhaps I can somewhat get caught up :wink:

Your post made me realise that this emoticon :rofl: wasn't someone drinking coffee. I feel so stupid.:redface:
Original post by Tormund
You've done so much work for maths, it's really making me feel inadequate. I got my timetable today though so I know when my frees are so perhaps I can somewhat get caught up :wink:

Your post made me realise that this emoticon :rofl: wasn't someone drinking coffee. I feel so stupid.:redface:


It's just because I read ahead in my free time, because in the end maths is a hobby of mine. That's why I've read so far ahead, it doesn't really reflect my ability. I don't see how :rofl: could possibly look like a person drinking coffee but ok :rofl: I have done absolutely zilch today so I won't be posting an update today. Probably tomorrow after my first day.
I've been working on FP1 notes/a guide (old FP3) with the intention on putting them (though they're not done yet) on here so do let me know if you'd be interested, similar to what I would've done if that guide idea passed in f31 a few weeks ago. I'll just need to ensure that they're actually useful beforehand lol. I probably should be spending my time elsewhere but oh well, I don't really have much work to do yet, and I thought I'd make myself useful. If people find it useful I'll make more, for the compulsory core unit. A full update will come when I can be bothered.

Tagging people who I think are doing further maths

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Original post by _gcx
I've been working on FP1 notes/a guide (old FP3) with the intention on putting them (though they're not done yet) on here so do let me know if you'd be interested, similar to what I would've done if that guide idea passed in f31 a few weeks ago. I'll just need to ensure that they're actually useful beforehand lol. I probably should be spending my time elsewhere but oh well, I don't really have much work to do yet, and I thought I'd make myself useful. If people find it useful I'll make more, for the compulsory core unit. A full update will come when I can be bothered.

Tagging people who I think are doing further maths

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Yay, nice to see you have a thread! (They're really becoming like a thing this year, aren't they?) And yes, please add me to your tag list, it'll make me feel better about spamming you with daily posts :tongue:
Original post by DeepInTheMeadow
Yay, nice to see you have a thread! (They're really becoming like a thing this year, aren't they?) And yes, please add me to your tag list, it'll make me feel better about spamming you with daily posts :tongue:


Yeah, my previous two attempts were really too dry for me to really keep up. I didn't end up doing nearly as much revision as I imagined that I'd do, and that shows in the sciences, but it wasn't too bad for cramming. I shall! I might start writing an update now though admittedly I've been neglectful this weekend.

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