Math classes

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:59 pm

Does anyone know where I can find a list that shows what order you are supposed to take math classes in? I'm trying to figure out what goes between 113 and 214. It is one of those 300 classes, but I don't know which one.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:16 pm

Well the prereqs on the registration page for 214 say: "Math 113; 343 or concurrent enrollment."

And the math page also says 343.

So I guess that is it.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:55 pm

Shoot. I signed up for the wrong one! (334 instead of 343!)

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:41 pm

Cruse taht dyslexia!

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:28 am

Better change that. Differential Equations (334) is much tougher than matricies (343), and you will need 214 and others before you take it. But you know what? I took them all in the right order, and really wished that I had taken 214 immediatly after 113. 214 is multi-variable calc, and obviously 113 is the last of the basic calcs. 343 is mostly irrelevant to calc. But by the time I took 214 a year after 113, I felt like I had forgotten how to do calc in one variable, which made life in multi variables much harder.

Not to be one to tell you to ignore the rules and skip 343, but . . . I just remember wishing I didn't have that gap. I would at least do the concurrent enrollment if you can manage it.

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:37 pm

Does it annoy anyone else how little sense the numbering of math courses makes? I mean, you take 119, then 112, 113, 343, 241, 334. That doesn't make any sense!

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:47 pm

Fredjikrang wrote:Does it annoy anyone else how little sense the numbering of math courses makes? I mean, you take 119, then 112, 113, 343, 241, 334. That doesn't make any sense!

Well, that is because you are going into Mechanical Engineering right? Since when does that make any sense at all?

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:54 pm

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:04 pm

Um, Fred's right. It didn't make any more sense for us math majors, that was the sequence as I recall. Minus 119- I thought 119 replaced 112-113, not preceeded it? I don't know what anyone was smokin' when they made up the numbers, but they make no sense whatsoever. Maybe we should ask the Board how they came up with the course numbers . . .

Or maybe I should just ask my father in law, who was a BYU math professor for 40 years. I'll get back to you on this.

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:13 pm

I though 119 was just a somewhat easier version than 112. Do you have to take that as well?

Fredjikrang · Post by **Fredjikrang** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:14 pm

119 is a more basic version of 112 and 113. I would put if before them, just because of the fact that it doesn't go as in depth.

Quiet Lamb · Post by **Quiet Lamb** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:48 am

There has to be some equation or essential irrational number that corresponds to it all...

Nanti-SARRMM · Post by **Nanti-SARRMM** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:58 am

Quiet Lamb wrote:There has to be some equation or essential irrational number that corresponds to it all...

Maybe, but then again the Math department is evil. That could explain it.

vorpal blade · Post by **vorpal blade** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:52 pm

I think the numbering was more logical in 1965-1971 when I was working on my undergraduate degree in mathematics at BYU.

For what it's worth I took:

1965-66
112 Analytical Geometry and Calculus
213 Analytical Geometry and Calculus

Spring 1969
243 Intermediate Calculus and Analysis
332 Introduction to Complex Analysis

1969-1970
244 Intermediate Calculus and Analysis
371 Introduction to Modern Algebra
372 Introduction to Linear Algebra
434 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations

1970-1971
387 Theory of Numbers
541 Introduction to Real Analysis
411 Numerical Methods
508 Math logic
542 Introduction to Real Analysis