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A comment on Ask HN: Where did you top out in math classes?.

Re:Ask HN: Where did you top out in math classes? by rms on Sunday June 01, 2008 @10:33PM (#206384)
Calculus III... I think I could have got it, but it's tough material and I had a terrible professor, so I didn't really learn any Calculus III. I passed and did much better in my final math course, a one semester differential equations/linear algebra hybrid course.
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Re:Ask HN: Where did you top out in math classes? by rms on Monday June 02, 2008 @12:58AM (#206465)
Also, my first semester I took one class of "Honors" calculus which was a proof based differential+integral Calc course. I dropped that really fast in favor of Calc II. So I also hit a wall at proof based calculus. Most of the people who actually took the class didn't get it either and resorted to memorizing all the proofs needed to derive calculus.
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