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Conceptually difficult: relativistic quantum mechanics, but that was P/F so the stress level was low
Worked hardest: Junior-level classical mechanics.
That's basically around a theorem used in a field of physics though.
Supposedly there are things in set and number theory harder than anything mentioned here but I'd still put them up against abstract algebra. Algebraic-topology has some entries in the millennium prize or at least it did.
That's basically around a theorem used in a field of physics though.
Supposedly there are things in set and number theory harder than anything mentioned here but I'd still put them up against abstract algebra. Algebraic-topology has some entries in the millennium prize or at least it did.
Yeah, relativistic quantum mechanics is also often called quantum field theory. It's far more than one theorem, though, it's basically the conceptually underpinning of all modern high-energy physics. Thankfully I'm not a high energy physicist!
I don't think it was the most challenging class offered at my school, just the most conceptually challenging that I actually took. On name alone, the most advanced course was generally considered "Advanced Ligand Field Theory". Abstract algebra was generally considered more of a weed-out course. It was generally considered difficult, but if it was too difficult you probably shouldn't be majoring in math.
I'm going to have to say the Public Speaking class that I had no choice but to take at 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays. Yes, 7:30 a.m. Friday night was usually a party at a frat house (OK, I was young, it was the '60's and I went to college for all the wrong reasons), I was lucky to string five words into a sentence, nevertheless be coherent. I somehow managed to get a B in it, though.
Yeah, relativistic quantum mechanics is also often called quantum field theory. It's far more than one theorem, though, it's basically the conceptually underpinning of all modern high-energy physics. Thankfully I'm not a high energy physicist!
I don't think it was the most challenging class offered at my school, just the most conceptually challenging that I actually took. On name alone, the most advanced course was generally considered "Advanced Ligand Field Theory". Abstract algebra was generally considered more of a weed-out course. It was generally considered difficult, but if it was too difficult you probably shouldn't be majoring in math.
Yeah math 55a at Harvard is abstract-algebra but I've been told it's also fast-timed and meant to expose math prodigy's.
If you look at stuff at MIT, CalTech, Brown, Stanford, Harvard in courses right before everything breaks out to PhD studies you see Dynamical Systems(chaos theory), Set Theory, Number Theory, Probability Theory, and Lattice Theory a lot. Then right before that Algebraic-Topology and some other things.
If you want future&profit proof stuff go in to predictive analysis. A.I. is about to be like the internet was in the 90s except probably for centuries.
I wasn't an Accounting major either when I foolishly took Intermediate Accounting.
If this was an elective, I'm curious why did you take this class other than having masochistic tendencies?
I was a software engineering major and it was part of the curriculum although I am baffled as to why.
I suppose the word "engineer" on my major contributed to that... so worthless.
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