/sci/ - Science & Math

What are your favorite stereotypes about different types of mathematicians, like the algebraist vs. the analyst vs. the geometrician

>>9101953
ok you got me I live in Burgerland

Yeah my CS degree doesn't require real analysis, but my double major in statistics does require it, and then my minor in mathematics requires linear analysis, so that's part of why I'm taking it

Not sure how real analysis would be useful to computer science though, beyond what is already taught in advanced algorithms courses

my stupid question: How do I calculate "M" in an error bound for the Taylor's series?

|f(x) - T1(x)| <= M/2 |x-b|2

Is it just finding the largest value of f''(x) on the interval?

So I'm assuming I have to solve f'''(x)=0 and then plug that value into |f''(x)|,
but if there's no value, then I plug in both endpoints of the interval into f''(x), find the bigger one, and use that for M?

So, which STEM degree is THE best one to get (in undergrad)?

none of that "do whatever you're interested in" bs, just tell me the #1 stem degree and why it's #1