/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5533710
> which is easier
If you don't know based on what you've already learned they're all going to be hard you fucking retarded monkey autist faggot.

How is graph theory not a required class for a CS major?

>>5533714
S-s-sorry, anon.

>>5533715
It is 'required'. It just counts as part of a pool of MATH courses I can choose from.

Graph Theory is probably going to be the easiest of the bunch. Cryptography ranges from retardedly easy to very difficult depending on how theory-focussed it is.

I took graph theory in a discrete mathematics course in my freshman year. It was just the basic stuff and seemed pretty simple.

>>5533710

Take Crypto and explain how the fuck Elliptic Curve Cryptography works, to me (a potato).

>>5533735
It's just a strange field in which logarithms are hard. All the normal group-based cryptographic algorithms work with it unchanged.

>>5533710
>Cryptography

What department is it in (and link to a syllabus). Intro to Cryptography can be taught many different ways. A single term mathematical course (with light prereqs) in crypto usually doesn't have enough time really cover that much deep stuff so you might find it boring if you already know some stuff from a good discrete math course. A CS/CE style course that focuses on security definitions like what and when to use ciphers that are chosen-ciphertext attack secure vs a chosen-plaintext attack secure one, or why you should never use a CBC-MAC as a hashing function would be great even if you end up just working with crypto instead of on it.

Either way they both tends to be an easy A

>Graph Theory

Very easy, you're better of just reading a book or two on it.

>Numerical Analysis I

Math department: Difficult but more rewarding
CS department: Easy as fuck

crypto is typically proof and math intensive - not easy
numerical analysis is not easy either, though it is very useful
i would go with graph theory, it is a lighter topic than either of the other two

>>5533853
Thanks for your insightful contribution.

>>5533848
All 3 courses I listed are under the mathematics department.

>>5533853
>real science
>hard

That's why half the bio and chem majors are working at Target.

>>5533990
>bio
>real science

>>5533990

>>5533853
>>5533992

This is cancer

>>5534062
Ongogenic, even.

>>5534062
not this is bio

>>5533853
computer science is applied math dumbass

>>5534084
A cashier job is also applied math

>>5533715
Graphs are studied in discrete mathematics, data structures, and algorithm courses. There's no need for a dedicated graph theory class.

>>5534089
abstract algebra is advanced cashier job.

>>5534084
Science is applied math. In some cases Computer Science IS math. Analysis of NP completeness is an example.

>>5534105
I've study complexity theory, and no CS is NOT math. Physics practical IS pure math. CS just uses a lot of math notation.