what is your highest level of math reached?

[vash]

a poll! just curious, since i grew up bad at math, and then figured it out way later in life.

[vash]

excuse the typo. this is about Math anyways.

[cabmandone]

I lernt my cypherin and gazintas with Jethro.

[MBAtarga]

There's a difference in taking a math class - and learning/retaining it for life.
Which is your poll? - as my answer deviates widely....

[dw1]

Advanced calculus, advanced DE's, stats, plus....

And yes, I actually used it. Applications included tensor field analysis, NURBS 3D geometry, flow analysis of non-Newtonian fluids, probability analysis, etc.

I did work in both aerospace and medical research. The most interesting math was analysis of blood flow in arteries and throughout the cardiac cycle in connections with development of mechanical circulatory assist devices, since it is 3D flow of a non-Newtonian fluid (blood) contained in objects with abnormal stress-strain characteristics (arteries & veins). Also, trying to maximizing assisted flow while minimizing hemolysis is a very interesting challenge - interestingly, some of the same technology used by the US Navy to make "silent" submarine propellers is applicable to LVAD impellers. And I used stats (especially DOE, SPC & 6 sigma) in manufacturing.

Oh yeah, and managerial accounting as well, since I was a department head (and senior staff member) and responsible for budgets, cost analyses, ROI calculations, etc.

[Arizona_928]

Is there something harder than diff eq?


I thought everyone just plugged it into a computer and it says no or idk

[oldE]

It has been 49 years since I last used calculus. I wouldn't say I was the go to person for it.

Best
Les

[aschen]

calc 1-3, diff eq, linear systems of diff eqs, graduate level statistics (which was actually just a basic stats class somehow).

I hated math in high school, but got into it in college, I havent really retained much of it 20 years later computational methods just estimate solutions for complex analysis these days

[dw1]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

Is there something harder than diff eq?


I thought everyone just plugged it into a computer and it says no or idk

Try getting a "plug and chug" computer approach to work with reverse nonlinear stress-strain curves or with non-Newtonian fluids.

It takes some significant work just to set it up for a computer-based solution and to avoid the well-known "garbage in - garbage out" problem.

[Crowbob]

47.

The answer is always 47.

[dw1]

the ultimate answer is 42

(per Douglas Adams)

[stevej37]

I took Calc 1 the first year of college. The next year I didn't find it important to go to classes.
Calc 2 didn't work out.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

47.

The answer is always 47.

Show yer work !

[masraum]

I'm pretty decent at math. In HS I got up to AP Calc and AP tested out of Calc 1. In college, I had to take calc 1 anyway because it was a different version. I got up to diff eq. I took some classes in the local comm college 15-20 years ago. My wife was getting a degree. I took calc 1 and 2 with her and then took calc 3 "for fun." (and it actually was)

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I took Calc 1 the first year of college. The next year I didn't find it important to go to classes.
Calc 2 didn't work out.

My calc 1 was at 7am. I came out of that one with an A despite only going for the tests. By the time I got to Diff Eq, I had the same problem you did with calc 2.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by vash

a poll! just curious, since i grew up bad at math, and then figured it out way later in life.

But dude, you're Asian. It's a rule that you're supposed to be good at math.

[gacook]

Boolean Algebra and Statistics were my highest maths, I guess. I don't really count statistics as a math class...more a class about how to use numbers to manipulate people.

[TimT]

calc 1-3, diff eq, linear systems of diff eqs,

This, plus one call Advanced Mathematics.... The teacher was a twenty some y/o smoking hot chick who was doing her Phd at Columbia University (I didn't attend Columbia)

I swear she got worked up and aroused talking about String Theory....and other theoretical concepts...

Somehow I passed that course......at the end of the semester there were three of us left in the class..

[zakthor]

Come on some jerk's gotta pick the 'good will hunting' answer.

I peaked with algebraic geometry and a year of probability (<- which kicked my ass). I took it because it was interesting but it was useful because its the foundation math of machine learning.

[LWJ]

High school Trig.

But, I had a stupid stats class in my MBA program. No vote for that.