the-pi-guy said:
Slade6alpha said:
Nice! I was going to ask you your questions, but directed at you. You're a math major as well?
It's all relative (difficulty) depending on your school. I go to a state school so it's not THAT hard in terms of grades. My GPA is like 3.8 which is pretty good for a math major.
That book is really good because it explains things well, but I just wish it did more examples. Because you learn through doing the examples, they give you useful tools for solving other examples. It's also dirt cheap for a math text and covers everything from groups, rings, to Galois theory.
The only issue with that class, for me, is how it's taught. It's taught by the Moore method, which is when the class has to present problems. The professor doesn't always explain things well and some of the material should be taught with more formal lecture than Moore method, especially quotient rings, but it's good if you're looking to one day become a teacher, as he has you explain the problems. Again it's all relative to the course.
For abstract algebra, it's a lot of definitions that you have to know and relate back constantly to previous definitions.
For that book you'll be using cosets, group operations, and certain theorems all throughout the course. Just be sure to know definitions and relate them to problems.
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I'm doing math/computer science.
Basically finished Calc I/II (tested out of them before college), Ordinary Differential Equations (Seems like it usually is taken after Calc III, but I did it the other way around). Currently doing Linear Algebra, and going to take Calc III over the summer. I am planning on taking Abstract Algebra and Discrete Mathematics in the fall.
Awesome to know!
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Those are the beginning of your proof based classes, I presume. That's the true heart of being a math major. The computational stuff is what they expect you to know and apply, the theory behind it is what's difficult. But I'm sure you'll do fine though.
It takes time writing up formal proofs, but a lot of it just takes practice like everything else. It gets harder as there isn't much help online as for like the computational stuff.
Enjoy!
