Liberal Forum

Vegas » 28 Jan 2025, 4:40 pm » wrote: ↑

28 Jan 2025, 4:40 pm

If you were doing problems in Diff equations, then you have what it takes for advanced math.

My favorite was topology. That is more pure math than applied math. Though it does have some fantastic applications. Check it out - in topology, a math professor proved that you could turn a sphere inside out without cutting a slit in the sphere. That is to say, if you had a tennis ball, and the ball was made of zero resistance malleable material, then it is theoretically possible to turn it inside out without cutting a slit in it. That blows my mind.

I get Diff equations when I watch someone doing them.  And, I may have used them for a short time when I took an advanced Economics course. 

To me, advanced math is that stuff nuclear/quantum physicists use.  I'm pretty sure I can ever build up to that. And, even if I could grasp a little of it, I know I could never think in terms of that math.  Not like those people who live and breath that stuff.  Not even close.

I suppose I have to be satisfied some day fully learning what I flubbed up in Trig-Analyt in highschool.