/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9132963
You quoted me, and I'll type them out for you.

Stewart: shit you should have learned in high school: basic algebra/trig/calc
Larson: college level calculus with the autism of spivak et al
Ross: baby level real analysis
Abott: "Understanding Analysis" one step above Ross and one below Bartle
Bartle: a very good real analysis book with Rudin's autism
Rudin: the bible of undergraduate real analysis
Royden: graduate level real analysis/variables
Shelah: see>>9126336 and >>9126337

Scrolled through to provide my opinions. I was a TA while studying for my MS and PhD in statistics. I will first say that it is not only premeds but also nursing students.

In the USA, admission to nursing BSN programs and med school are fierce. So students do everything they can to get at least 1 point higher than everyone else in the class, just to increase their chance of acceptance.

I have had to TA (teach, just run quizzes/exams by the professor before giving them) basic and intermediate statistics (no calculus required) almost every semester, and it's the same shit everytime.

>be me
>AFUCKINGWHITEMALE.png
>give quiz/exam
>post solutions on blackboard afterwards
>grading rubric is very clear and lenient
>fuckers are banging down my office door before I have even started grading
>literally15minsafterthetestWTF.gif
>fuckers start begging for extra points
>won't gtfo after telling them I won't grade until later
>start complaining about my "privileged" class
>blah blah blah

Then at the end of the semester these fuckwits are begging for extra credit, even though syllabus says no. Email blowing up, banging on my office door like a SWAT raid, etc.

It's mentally exhausting, and don't even get me started on the cheating!

get on my level senpai

>>8767755
It really depends on your area in math.

>undergrad
>GIS REU
>they need a programmer
>got papers in geology journals
>only solved problems that I did not know were unsolved
>wtf yeah grad app.gif

>studying for MS in Math
>industry job watch out.exe
>fuckanalysis.png
>just want to study numerical methods and stats
>bored and start wondering
>it's going somewhere
>oh this shit's cool.jpg
>what can I do if I relax this
>troll a few definitions.png
>it leads somewhere
>get a theory paper
>run it on a few public data sets
>two papers
>professors are like go to PhD program anon
>okay fuck it why not

It helps to have professors that are not only pure math, but use lab data (PI INSISTS on being last author for grant reasons) to answer a question. I like stats and am only a ABD -- studying stats now -- now, but my academic preparation made me /fit/ for stats. I am a total brainlet, but hardwork does pay off!!!

Next post will be about submitting a paper in case that was your question.

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