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>>8978376
Got to be working why you get those good grades goym.

But seriously it's ridiculous.

>>8978376
France has top-tier math programme, only trumped by Russia. You're not going to beat Russia in applied math.

>>8978384
Really? What about Germany?

>>8978086
(1/26)^2

>>8978086
The odds of one holding down Alt and pressing 227? Idk, pretty slim.

Half. Either do or else ain't do

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>In fact, popular college math courses like Statistics do not require intermediate algebra. Studies show that the very same students, whose futures are threatened by algebra policies, can pass a rigorous college-level statistics course without knowing intermediate algebra.
Wait what
How the fuck does this happen?

Shit guys, they're on to us. I'm a teacher at a top 20 university, and for years I have designed my algebra exams specifically to disadvantage blacks. Some voodoo magic here and there to make the variables and functions slightly more racist, and I've gotten away with it so far. What should we do to make this more subtle before they figure is out?

>>8977025
obviously statistics isnt racist because only STEM majors take it

>>8975769
i forgot to mention that he doesn't specify that a is negative or positive

>>8975769
He's not wrong though

>pre-calculus

nigger calling the kettle black

>>8975586
Your thread is a meme. Your life is a meme. You are a meme.

>>8975602
sal pls go

Why is it a meme to break difficult to understand concepts down to an understandable level. Not everybody learns as fast as everyone on /sci/ (with their 199 IQs)

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>>8965469
It's shit.

>>8965469
every book list posted here is a meme, especially this one:
>>8965470

>>8965475
what are some non-meme books you recommend?

>In this (current year) it's needless for humans to keep murdering animals for food.
Objectively false.

>I mean It's not like, our whole species could die if it suddenly lost the traits that made us omnivores in the first place, right?
Yes, we would die off.

>Can they be lost?
Not without killing us in the process.

>>8981344
well, fpbp, good work anon. since this complete waste of space has been dealt with, i'm gonna go ahead and call it.

/thread

>>8981338
Let's just get one thing out of the way right now.
There is a reason herbivores are dumb as fucking rocks compared to carnivores and omnivores.

>>8982064
meh not really. only number theory, every other thing is applied

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>>8982071
Number theory deals with numbers.
It's not math if it has numbers in it.
I think set theory is more like real math.

>>8982071
Classic brainlet response. You don't even know what you're talking about

>>8981792

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>>8981792
and EE is what exactly?

>>8981792
i use xi and zeta as variables as often as I can

The Bourgeoisie

>>8980633
This

Research stats.

>>8980623
Grad level precalc

>>8979764
Life arose out of a need for a subsystem to maintain internal order while existing in a system of ever-increasing disarray.

If you take away that stimulus, those subsystems have nothing to influence them towards increasing self-ordering (and complexity) in defiance of entropy.

>>8979764
What is that? Ruger 22/45? Thats what the CIA uses for ..... stuff...
Don't overthink it. You live in a clockwork cage designed for our benefit, probably?

>>8979778
Reminds of this other dude that was saying if you take away the "frontier" then humanity stops trying to improve itself.

>>8979164
Whoever's buying a MATLAB license won't have the money to pay you your salary, so no.

If you're in college matlab is pretty useful. If you need it in a working enviroment just get Octave.

>>8979195
So is Octave used more in the working environment?

where are the civil engineers?

those are supposed to be 3 beams by the way connected by hinges and on bearings

>>8981650
So how long have you Germans been dabbling in antigravity? Can't say I'm familiar with the levitation boundary condition.

>>8981186
You're gonna want to enroll in a Precalculus class instead.

It will spend half its time teaching you college algebra, proofs, sets, notation, etc., then it will shift to trig and teach you the more important parts of that, and then probably go into complex numbers, radial coordinate planes, hyperbolas and parametrics in general.

If you're not at least mildly acquainted with ALL of those topics, Calc 2 will be difficult for you, and further math even moreso.

It's not hard, though. I never took trig, and took College Algebra in highschool and slept through the class. When I enrolled in college years later, I just spent the summer before my freshman year on sites like Khan Academy trying to get 100% in their college algebra, trig, and precalc courses.

Rolled into Calc 1, 2, 3, etc and made straight A's pretty easily.

The only solution to your circumstances as they stand now is to get to work. Start doing math and don't let up. You have the summer to figure out all the precalc topics. If you don't, enroll in precalc or trig instead of calc 2.

It was an oversight to let you into Calc 1 without confirming you knew your college algebra and trig, btw. They're supposed to test for that. If you can't graph a hyperbola, reduce the power of a trig function, or perform a partial decomposition on a cubic function, you're probably not going to succeed in Calc without a lot of tutoring or studying on the side.

>>8981186
Ahahaha, I think it's time for the /meme/list to rescue you!

>Prerequisites:
Good studying habits
Purpose
Grit
An ability to resort to Khan Academy if truly struggling
Basic "know-how" with mathematics (things should be approaching a review in the beginning)

>Chapter 1: Introduction to Entry-Level Mathematics, P. I
Pre-Calculus - Carl Stitz & Jeff Zeager
Calculus: A Modern Approach - Jeff Knisley & Kevin Shirley
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving - Paul Zeitz

>Chapter 2: Introduction to Entry-Level Mathematics, P. II
Linear Algebra and Its Applications - David C. Lay
Calculus of Several Variables - Serge Lang
Applied Differential Equations by Vladimir A. Dobrushkin

>Chapter 3: Introduction to Proofs and Survey of Higher-Level Mathematics
How to Think Like a Mathematician - Kevin Houston
How to Prove It - D. J. Velleman
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning - A.D. Aleksandrov, A.N. Kolmogorov, & M.A. Lavrent'ev

>Chapter 4: Bringing It All Together: The First Test of Mathematical Maturity
Calculus Vol. I & II - T. M. Apostol
Analysis I & II - Terrance Tao

>>8981207
>If you can't graph a hyperbola, reduce the power of a trig function, or perform a partial decomposition on a cubic function, you're probably not going to succeed in Calc without a lot of tutoring or studying on the side.
Not OP, but also frustrated. The funny thing is you can breeze through AP Calculus AB and BC with high 5s and not be able to do that. American education is fucking watered down and retarded, and I hate myself for being incompetent at any real mathematical modeling problems. So much was skipped that it almost feels like I have to redo everything to even get anywhere and yet still have the nagging feeling at the back of my head that I'm missing something important.

Are you actually expecting a response that isn't an enlightened 12 year old going "MUH LIBSHIT KIKES SHOVING LEFTIST PROPAGANDA DOWN YOUR THROAT"

At the best, basic education in the humanities helps scientists be able to communicate to the general public about why their work is important, which is a necessity because we cant force the plebs to accept that we know whats best for them.

>>8980760

I am honestly curious. Based on my personal opinion (which is probably biased) I see no reason to include literature and other Humanities into a STEM curriculum. That is why I wanted to know how others justify including these subjects into an scientific education.