The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome

Chespirito · 10-12-2010, 01:01 PM

Where are the error bars?

DWarrior · 10-12-2010, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by fluxquanta

FUCK THOSE MATRICES.

Every few months I realize I don't remember the signifficance of Eigenvalues, go look it up, and then promptly forget all about it. Fuck Linear Algebra.

BrianAlt · 10-12-2010, 01:28 PM

Heh, Eigenvalues, there's something I haven't thought of in a decade or two.

I actually did pretty well in Linear Algebra.

fluxquanta · 10-12-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DWarrior

Every few months I realize I don't remember the signifficance of Eigenvalues, go look it up, and then promptly forget all about it. Fuck Linear Algebra.

Linear Algebra was actually my favorite class in the whole math major (that and the "Advanced Linear Algebra" I took a couple semesters after). Maybe it was just that the professor was the coolest fucking guy ever, or that linear algebra is actually extremely useful in physics...I don't know.

DWarrior · 10-12-2010, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by fluxquanta

Linear Algebra was actually my favorite class in the whole math major (that and the "Advanced Linear Algebra" I took a couple semesters after). Maybe it was just that the professor was the coolest fucking guy ever, or that linear algebra is actually extremely useful in physics...I don't know.

Probably because your other classes involved Calc (the only subject worse) and you didn't take Topology.

I actually enjoyed Lin Alg myself, but matrix multiplication is way too tedious and DEs with matrices is just pure hell.

fluxquanta · 10-12-2010, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DWarrior

Probably because your other classes involved Calc (the only subject worse) and you didn't take Topology.

I did number and group theory, and while group theory was okay, number theory made me want to kill myself. They did offer graph theory, but I didn't take it.

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Originally Posted by DWarrior

I actually enjoyed Lin Alg myself, but matrix multiplication is way too tedious and DEs with matrices is just pure hell.

After like one homework assignment and one question on the exams, our professor was like "just use Mathematica or Maple".

Bebe · 10-13-2010, 04:32 AM

I'm feeling a bit queasy.

BrianAlt · 10-13-2010, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Bebe

I'm feeling a bit queasy.

Don't become a dead grandmother on us now!

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