/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12453959
Easily the best post on /sci/ of 2020. Absolutely and unequivocally based.

>This discovery highlights unexpected cognitive abilities on the part of Neanderthals, who not only had a good understanding of the mathematics involved in winding the fibers, but also a thorough knowledge of tree growth.
>These results, published today (April 9, 2020) in Scientific Reports, represent the oldest known proof of textile and cord technology to date.
Neanderthals had textile manufacturing 40,000 years ago...

It's cool pal :)

>tfw another major thread

I need advice. So I'm a physics major but I'm also doing a BA in chemistry RATHER THAN a BA or even just a minor in math. How badly am I fucked by going on to grad school for physics with only a background in differential equations and multivariable calculus for math? I technically could add a math minor and still manage to graduate in four years on schedule but the classes for that wouldn't include advanced calculus or anything like that, and considering how integral diff eq is for physics, I really feel like a brainlet by having only completed the required introductory diff eq class. Also, in order to add math as a minor, I'd have to ruin another summer by taking a bunch of classes, which I can technically do, but that's more debt to worry about since summer research programs (for chem and phys) offer only 2 grand at best.

Should I just learn advanced math on my own, or just see how it goes and learn the required mathematical techniques for physics as I need them?