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#401 Help Me ! » Becoming a Mathematician... » 2007-10-25 13:58:15
- LuisRodg
- Replies: 26
Hello guys, I just have a question that kind of bothers me and I want to know what you guys think about it and what do you have to tell me?
Heres the issue: I am currently a freshman in some university in Miami. I am also a math major. I am currently taking Calculus I and I have the highest grade on the class and truly love the subject. Math has always been my favorite subject in High School which was the reason for which I decided to be a math major. As of right now Im really happy with my decision but the only thing that bothers me is the fact that im always being told of how hard it is to be a math major and how i am going to drop out...This is said to me in person as well as other message boards.
Most of the time the comments come like "You might be good at Calculus and like math but when you hit Real Analysis then your going to really hate math and your going to drop it. Upper level math is not the same, its not even similar".
You get the point...Now, is this true? Its like, I dont feel I could do any other major, it feels that math is the only one which Im gonna be able to do because its the only subject I love and I would truly hate studying something which I dont like deep inside.
Basically, I feel that a math major is the only thing I could in my life and then some people tell me that its practically impossible to do and im gonna have to drop it. Somehow that angers me...What is input in this issue?
#402 Jokes » The endless battle between mathematicians and engineers... » 2007-10-25 04:53:14
- LuisRodg
- Replies: 5
Just found this over the web, maybe it was posted already, maybe not...
A group of mathematicians and a group of engineers are traveling together by train to attend a conference on mathematical methods in engineering. Each engineer has a ticket whereas only one of the mathematicians has one. Of course, the engineers laugh at the unworldly mathematicians and look forward to the moment the conductor shows up.
Suddenly one of the mathematicians shouts: "Conductor coming!"
All the mathematicians disappear into one washroom.
The conductor checks the ticket of each engineer and then knocks at the washroom door: "Your ticket, please."
The mathematicians stick the one ticket they have under the door, the conductor checks it and leaves. A few minutes later, when it is safe, the mathematicians come out of the washroom. The engineers are impressed.
When the conference has come to an end, the engineers decide that they are at least as smart as the mathematicians and also buy just one ticket for the whole group. This time the mathematicians have no ticket at all...
Again one of the mathematicians shouts: "Conductor coming!".
All the engineers rush off to one washroom. One of the mathematicians goes to that washroom, knocks at the door, and says: "Your ticket, please..."
#403 Re: Jokes » Actual essay » 2007-10-25 04:52:13
Its really cool though. Im gonna use it for one of those Statement of Purpose for one scholarship that I dont care about. At least I will give the dude reading it a good laugh! 
#404 Re: Jokes » I know the answer sir » 2007-10-25 02:26:25
HAHA! Didnt expect the punch line as in most jokes.
Very nice.
#405 Re: Jokes » A Mathematician, an Engineer and a Physicist Staying in a Hotel » 2007-10-25 02:23:04
I have seen countless of "mathematician jokes" in which the punch-line is always "Ah,, a solution exists!"
Why is that?
#406 Re: Jokes » Actual essay » 2007-10-25 02:21:11
Very...original?
hehe
#407 Introductions » Warm introduction from MIAMI. » 2007-10-23 15:14:41
- LuisRodg
- Replies: 10
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#408 Re: Jokes » Brilliant mathematical minds » 2007-10-23 13:41:43
I may be a douchebag to point this out but one of the pictures, the ones about the limit as x approaches 8 is wrong.
Here it is:
It says that limit of (1 / (x-8)) as x approaches 8 is infinity which is wrong because for a double-sided limit to exist then the limit from the left and the limit from the right has to be equal. If we take the limit of such function as x approaches from the left = -infinity but if we evaluate from the right then the limit is = infinity which means that the double sided limit does not exist.
But then again this is a joke...Heh