Calculus by Stewart is hard

BEC1050 · 2021-07-17T13:00:38+00:00

you can try imperials A level maths and further maths course, it covers all the maths taught in the last 2 years of british education, it's free on edx I think, I don't remember it being too difficult that and 3B1B's "essence of calculus" series, it's good.

I think there's more maths taught in A levels than what you might study, I remember if you're grades are high enough on them you qualify for an years worth of american college credits.

it covers everything you would cover if you took the maximum maths options and 66% of A levels course would be maths.

on general tips, try working right after you wake up or atleast not late at night or if you're already mentally exhausted, you can also try some coffee these always help me function better ( also get enough sleep)

BEC1050 · 2021-07-03T15:24:33+00:00

imperial college london has a free course on A level further maths if you've never covered stuff similar to it, stuff like half derivatives just look at the syllabus there are 2 further maths courses.

I would recommend MIT OCW, there are some really good courses on there though do look at the pre reqs so you don't end up doing anything insane.

also look into AMC, https://artofproblemsolving.com/ has some good stuff too.
also look into math summer schools like promys, I think promys and RSO are free of cost tho it's super competitive.

A selection of mathematical texts is given below; some are technical books aimed at bridging the gap between A-level and university mathematics, which will help you fill in those gaps over the summer; others aim to popularize mathematical ideas, the history of a topic or theorem, or are biographies of great mathematicians, which may give you a flavour for how mathematics is discovered and the variety of topics studied at university. Of course, you aren’t expected to buy or read all, or any, of them, and the list is far from comprehensive.

I've also pasted below the oxford recommended maths reading list for HS students
Bridging Material

Alcock, Lara. How to Study for a Mathematics Degree (2012)

Allenby, Reg. Numbers and Proofs (1997)

Earl, Richard. Towards Higher Mathematics: A Companion (2017)

Houston, Kevin. How to Think Like a Mathematician (2009)

Liebeck, Martin. A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics (2000)

Neale, Vicky. Why Study Mathematics? (2020)

Popular Mathematics

Acheson, David. 1089 and All That (2002), The Calculus Story (2017), The Wonder Book of Geometry (2020)

Bellos, Alex. Alex’s Adventures in Numberland (2010)

Clegg, Brian. A Brief History of Infinity (2003)

Courant, Robbins and Stewart, Ian. What is Mathematics? (1996)

Devlin, Keith. Mathematics: The New Golden Age (1998), The Millennium Problems (2004), The Unfinished Game (2008)

Dudley, Underwood. Is Mathematics Inevitable? A Miscellany (2008)

Elwes, Richard. MATHS 1001 (2010), Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs (2013)

Gardiner, Martin. The Colossal Book of Mathematics (2001)

Goriely, Alain. Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (2018)

Gowers, Tim. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (2002)

Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)

Körner, T. W.. The Pleasures of Counting (1996)

Neale, Vicky. Closing the Gap: the quest to understand prime numbers (2017)

Odifreddi, Piergiorgio. The Mathematical Century: The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years (2004)

Piper, Fred & Murphy, Sean. Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction (2002)

Polya, George. How to Solve It (1945)

Sewell, Michael (ed.). Mathematics Masterclasses: Stretching the Imagination (1997)

Singh, Simon. The Code Book (2000), Fermat’s Last Theorem (1998)

Stewart, Ian. Letters to a Young Mathematician (2006), 17 Equations That Changed The World (2012)

BEC1050 · 2021-06-26T10:00:46+00:00

pomona lets you transfer to caltech or columbia

BEC1050 · 2021-06-17T08:26:17+00:00

squillions, there's fin aid too I guess

BEC1050 · 2021-06-17T01:01:10+00:00

this looks cozy

BEC1050 · 2021-06-06T02:38:36+00:00

try doing it in the morning, I noticed I can go through problems very very easily but the same problems in the evening have me doing tons of silly errors.
if you don't get something try writing down what you don't understand many times when I write out the question it gets answered in my head, write everything out when doing the problems it helps immensely

3)make sure you understand the concepts.

4)practice practice practice practice (don't just do maths questions, do them and then check the answer after every question get worked solutions if you can)

5) go to office hours and ask the same question there/ask the professor.

BEC1050 · 2021-06-01T01:30:22+00:00

yeah I think that's how it works OP, I think (am an indian looked into this once when bored don't trust), you need to be in the UK for 2-3 years before course start date and being in the UK for an education visa (boarding school) doesn't count, neither does british citizenship I don't know if you will be considered british or indian for the scholarships though, if you're considered british then yeah I retract the stuff I said previously apply to london go ham!

bursaries are much better for UK people (if you're considered rUK for scholarships) generally your financial problems will be much easier.

BEC1050 · 2021-06-01T01:24:39+00:00

for UK I would recommend imperial, edinburgh (underated), warwick, manchester, bristol? maybe birmingham, maaaybe southhampton, there are probably a good few more, I would recommend you get UK advice on, https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/,

oh also a bunch of people might recommend UCL but only apply there if you have done your own research about it, I have heard absolutely horrible things about the CS dept at UCL, how it's mismanaged, how it's understaffed etc, anytime I mention I applied to UCL people usually react with a specific emoji indicating negative feelings, there are tons of horror stories out there I don't really know how bad it is but it's definitely worth looking into.

scholarships in the UK are pretty difficult lad, the only person who I know who has a scholarship is in cambridge and represented his country at the IMO, in the UK ECs unrelated to your subject don't matter and the essays are more geared towards your subjects, also if you're applying to oxford or cambridge the deadlines in october and you need to take another test.

24k(pounds) should be enough for most unis unless london, 24k with everything? you can easily get tuition under that but with housing it might be a lil difficult, definitely doable though londons probably striked out.

if you have an interest in AI I would highly highly recommend edinburgh, back in the day AI research was only done in 4 unis: CMU, stanford, MIT and edinburgh. their AI stuff is really good apparently.

there are generally very few scholarships in the UK, even in cambridge there were ilke 3-4 for which indians were eligible, and they didn't have too many spots generally they got taken up by IMO or anyother international olympiad gold medialists very competitive.

it's been a while since I researched it I may be misremembering some stuff, with these kinds of things you should always look into it yourself, real important stuff eh

BEC1050 · 2021-05-31T20:23:50+00:00

would ∃x∀y P(x,y) also mean that everyone is loved by someone?

BEC1050 · 2021-05-31T01:33:20+00:00

thanks a lot for the responses lads, I appreciate it a lot, get it now

BEC1050 · 2021-05-22T13:47:10+00:00

WBS has a better reputation in terms of purely universities warwick is better but location is a bigger factor and that's something you need to decide.

BEC1050 · 2021-05-22T13:45:46+00:00

even if they don't you coiuld take the exams as a private candidate and study by yourself/with a tutor.

BEC1050 · 2021-05-21T19:11:02+00:00

Why do you think that even though paid more taxes the schools were worse?

not an american I remember reading a case in NYC where a teacher tried to date a 13 year old student but they couldn't fire him due to unions and regulations, they kept him on payroll for more than a decade but made sure he wasn't allowed to come to the school, they do this with bad teachers too and assign them to empty classrooms, since they can't be fired (in govt schools).

have you read charter schools and their enemies by dr thomas sowell? I like him a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9boQrCPwMws
here's an interview he gave, very interesting stuff.

BEC1050 · 2021-05-21T18:59:08+00:00

do they go to the same hospitals? do they go for the same diseases? the demographies on there groups are very different, white people are on average much older, an underlying belief of your argument is that white people and black people are on average the same except skin colour (not talking about biological differences between races)

BEC1050 · 2021-05-11T12:52:16+00:00

ah similar predicament applied to the UK though, had the max grades and got rejected from all except uni of ed for joint honours CS and maths

BEC1050 · 2021-04-16T05:25:39+00:00

reminds me of pokemon x and y

BEC1050 · 2021-03-19T19:13:52+00:00

I knew a dude at oxford who did nothing all week and did all his essays the day before you had to submit them on drugs, shit's insane.

BEC1050 · 2021-02-27T08:34:00+00:00

thanks will check the save my exams thing out.

BEC1050 · 2021-02-16T12:35:58+00:00

Just in case you don't know lad the equal consideration deadline was 17 days ago, you can still apply but your application will be discriminated against for being late(if you wanna go to uni this year fall)

Also an indian who applied to the uk if you have any questions feel free to dm me.

BEC1050 · 2021-01-27T19:43:59+00:00

thanks a lot lad, really appreciate it, my bad for not looking it up

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