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251 is far harder than any undergraduate math course at CMU. I had to register an account just to say one thing ... BULLSHIT. Math Studies was an order of mag
by redundant 15y ago
251 is far harder than any undergraduate math course at CMU.
I had to register an account just to say one thing ... BULLSHIT.
Math Studies was an order of magnitude harder than 251. Even factoring in the two homeworks and lectures of math studies, it's still a night and day difference. I took both last semester, and halfassed 251 and did well. There's no possible way to do that with math studies.
Just read your profile and realized who you were ... but I still hold to my opinion.
- Darmani 15y agoI considered adding an exception, but then I remembered Math Studies is really two classes. I definitely found Math Studies less than twice as hard as 251. Of course, I might also say that I five-sixths assed Math Studies and three-halves-assed 251. Maybe I shouldn't have rushed to make that statement. It certainly made graph theory with Mackey look like kindergarten, but I'm now remembering the stories about graph theory with Pikhurko and Set Theory. P.S.: Hacker News is a proven way to break reddit addictions. Welcome!
- redundant 15y agoI got off easy with doing Set Theory with Greggo. I know that Cummings once taught it ... and assigned 6 homeworks! That class must have been impossible. EDIT: I just read over their final ... and it looks as hard as either of the math studies algebra finals.
- edgeCase 15y agoYou can count math studies as up to 5 classes, since that's the number of normal-track classes it covers. Also, having TA'ed graph theory for pikhurko and mackey, and having TA'ed 251 twice, I still see 251 as the hardest.