UoM General Chat

[vcestudent94]

are you a math major vecstudent94?

Engineering and math major. Still undecided which to "officially" major in though.

[charmanderp]

It's advisable to do capstone subjects at the appropriate time. You'll learn more that way.

[scribble]

which math discipline?

[vcestudent94]

pure maths

[scribble]

ahhn im so jealous that like sounds so fun! ; u ;
so are you moving complex to next semester now?
im taking it next year zzzz

[vcestudent94]

Only a pure math major thinks what they do is fun
Ill have to see...might push it to 3rd year. My dream study plan is kinda ruined now...

[scribble]

XD im not doing pure math (but i super wish i was)

[Russ]

Should rename thread UoM Math Chat <3

[lzxnl]

So I emailed the lecturer about enrolling in Complex Analysis without having done two 2nd year maths subjects and I get this back:
 
"I sought advice from the relevant committee in the Department, and received
the response:
Complex Analysis is meant to be a capstone which pulls previous ideas together. Nevertheless, it is an advanced subject and the student should be picking up some more skills first.
 In view of this, it is therefore not possible to waive the prerequisite."

C'mon...I mean how much could doing something like Vector Calculus prepare me for C.A.?...

For the last one, there is a proof of the Cauchy-Riemann equations that uses Green's theorem. Also, contour integrals in complex analysis are pretty similar to line integrals in Vector Calculus. I mean, contour integrals are very similar to 2D line integrals.
My knowledge of Complex Analysis is quite limited so I can't give anymore information I'm afraid.

Only a pure math major thinks what they do is fun
Ill have to see...might push it to 3rd year. My dream study plan is kinda ruined now...

Isn't that the point? It'd be pretty depressing if they didn't think pure maths was fun. It looks boring enough to me.

[vcestudent94]

For the last one, there is a proof of the Cauchy-Riemann equations that uses Green's theorem. Also, contour integrals in complex analysis are pretty similar to line integrals in Vector Calculus. I mean, contour integrals are very similar to 2D line integrals.
My knowledge of Complex Analysis is quite limited so I can't give anymore information I'm afraid.

Yeah I'm sure it would be useful to do vect calc before doing Complex but I would hardly say it is essential-plus I'll be doing it concurrently anyway...

Isn't that the point? It'd be pretty depressing if they didn't think pure maths was fun. It looks boring enough to me.

But I said they DO find it fun-it's only a joke anyway, other people can find it fun too (prob not).

[lzxnl]

Yeah I'm sure it would be useful to do vect calc before doing Complex but I would hardly say it is essential-plus I'll be doing it concurrently anyway...

To be honest, I agree that Vector Calc isn't the best preparation for Complex Analysis. However, it's maths and it gets you thinking mathematically. I think the university just wants to ensure that you've been exposed to enough maths before taking Complex Analysis.

[charmanderp]

At least this time the mathematics chat is related to university...

[LeviLamp]

I still don't see why there was a problem with the content matter of this thread in the first place :/

[vox nihili]

It is "general" chat though. Personally, I'd always thought that this thread was chatting with people from Uni, getting to know them etc.

In other news, my second UniMelb Adventures review is up!

[charmanderp]

I still don't see why there was a problem with the content matter of this thread in the first place :/

Because two pages of talk about some mathematics isn't what this thread is for. If you want to do that, do it somewhere else. There's a reason we have boards and threads for specific purposes - so that if people have queries about certain things they can ask them in a certain place, or we can have discussions about common issues/goals/interests/anecdotes etc to do with the university.

This thread is for 'general' chat yes, but that's chat about the university in general. Questions, procedures, uni life and so on.