Re: 9 Chickweed Lane - 27 June

Henry Spencer wrote:


(Moreover, the math department's three classes were not just sorted in
order of difficulty -- the content was different. For example, the
physical-sciences-major class covered the basics of complex analysis,
while the math-major class postponed that topic to later years. Which
could be a nasty surprise to people like me, who automatically took
the "top" math class and then later hit science classes which used
math that hadn't been covered in that class.)


Huh. When I was in college, math or science majors would start with the
calculus sequence.


Brian

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