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Some number theory, linear algebra, calculus of variations, combinatorics, etc. From the applied math side of things, it isn't terribly deep. It's actually righ
by thearn4 10y ago
Some number theory, linear algebra, calculus of variations, combinatorics, etc. From the applied math side of things, it isn't terribly deep. It's actually right about what I would expect from an applied math student who was good at the undergraduate level and ready to study at a competitive university.
For general admissions for any discipline though, I'll agre it's probably a bit rough for non applied math grads. At least it doesn't include any analysis, abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.), or topology. Which would be murder for non-math majors.
- ajarmst 10y agoYep. My Math is undergraduate Electrical Engineering and Graduate Comp Sci. Some of the stuff I'd have to bone up on because I haven't done it in a few decades, but all the problems were familiar and seemed tractable---seemed appropriate for a recent maths undergraduate. (That said, I'd probably bounce hard off of the time limit, and it's been an awful long time since I did any maths where I wasn't allowed to pull a book down off a shelf.)
- n00b101 10y agoHonestly, I thought it was an undergrad entrance exam and was feeling sorry for Japanese high school students, before I checked the title again.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoYes, I made that mistake.
- bloaf 10y agoI missed the "graduate" part of "graduate school" and was temporarily impressed that Japanese high school students would have to learn eigenvalues/vectors. The second question about rotations seemed right out of an AP calculus class, until I saw the differential equations.
- startupdiscuss 10y ago> I missed the "graduate" part of "graduate school" and was temporarily impressed that Japanese high school students would have to learn eigenvalues/vectors. I had the same experience, followed by a "No wonder Sony produced such great products!" moment.
- dice 10y agoThere isn't anything on that exam that didn't get covered in my undergrad Physics program. From the title I thought it was an exam for entering a Mathematics graduate program rather than a Mathematics test for graduate programs, so I was surprised that the questions were so "straightforward".
- shas3 10y agoYeah it looks more like the math component of an engineering exam. If people look at this and think "oh cool, I can do well in this, I will become a mathematician," will be in for a rude shock when they take Grad School Real Analysis 1.