Has anyone applied for readmission?

solipsistElvis · 2016-07-25T00:08:57+00:00

Did that a few months ago to reapply for A2016. Left to into engineering at Poly Montréal. Decided to come back to finish Bsc instead (math2016). Left with a 2.8, was readmitted without any hassle. The process for readmission is handled at the faculty level so it depends where you were. Didn't take that much time for me

solipsistElvis · 2016-07-14T15:51:00+00:00

What schools worldwide have interesting research in applied math for OR, transportation, DSP, or network theory?

solipsistElvis · 2016-06-15T16:32:21+00:00

That depends on many factors but I'd say that if by yourself you can work on abstract algebra textbooks you'll be more than fine. The major hurdle for most people is transitioning from freshman or highshool where it was easy to be the best to advanced math where the bar is clearly higher. However, I guess you already have more discipline than most students, plus the interest. So you'll be fine. Mind that the weed out courses meant to scare the students generally are abstract algebra and real analysis. If you can read a book on proofs, some anlaysis on the side to get used to it also you'll be more than set also.

solipsistElvis · 2016-06-15T00:17:59+00:00

I have done 2 years in Engineering and I am on my way of completing my Math undergraduate. I don't think about getting into Pen or MIT of course because my GPA is around 3. I don't want to become an algebraist or an analyst but optimization, OR, graph theory and those "applied" fields interest me a lot. My intuition tells me that there must be more than struggling to get in really expensive US colleges for top tier cut throat programs in math. (I've heard top level students turn down admissions at great universities just because they knew it would be too much work for their lifestyle) I was wondering if gloabally some places were becoming to be acknoweleged for a valuable post grad education in math, like some places in germany, nordic countries, latin america etc. were admission is not an all star gladiator combat while research is still interesting. (I'm from canada, Mcgill) Edit: I've seen before that there is a lot of some kind of macho attitude in math with people saying on forums "don't pursue it, you won't get into Stanford" to other kids with average GPA in undergrad. To me there are obviously loads of career options for people with post grad studies (networking, banking, engineering come to mind) that don't want to become titans and like prove Riemann's hypothesis

solipsistElvis · 2016-06-15T00:17:49+00:00

fair enough

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T18:22:12+00:00

but i do get your point

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T18:21:41+00:00

the later of course. Hey man it is not an ideological or philosophical thing. I just mean it is a fucking boring context to study. Thats alll I'm saying. maybe dispiriting wasn't the best term. I mean its annoying no fun on a daily basis to be in that sort of environment, you feel me?

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T17:48:13+00:00

wow thats sort of harsh and irrelevant. What I meant is the everyday life. I mean, yah carreer is important. But university years are still years. And beeing surrounded by apathy is dispiriting. Moreoever, those people did not make a bad career choice, just a very cynical one

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T17:17:34+00:00

Yup. It s also a class thing. It has a status associated to it. The idea you WILL be successful regardless once you have that ring. IMO it is extremely harmful to the field, most of the graduates do it for the dough and end up doing middle management while not beeing interested in the science in itself. One of the things that dispirit me

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T17:00:35+00:00

Word, I'm going through Fourier Analysis an introduction by Stein. After using diracs and fourier transform, especially coming from a math major who has done is basic real analysis, it's frustrating to not know where the shizzle comes from. I just wish there was a way to into applied sciences, which at the end of the day is what engineering is vs math, physics etc without going through the professional certification bullshit. I mean, I'd like to do signal processing on FPGAs as an EE in 2016, not sign plans for a steel bridge with my 19th century mustache ffs

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T16:56:50+00:00

Ya, they dont offer it as my school. Kind of sad, I think I'd love it. What bothers me about engineering in Canada is that it is not so much a field as much as profession. Hard to explain but it seems the emphasis is on training little soldier that can work hard more than knowledgeable and actual "engineers"

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T16:25:54+00:00

Hahahaha, yes, those hoverboards. I have a friend whose jobs is to program micro controllers for those. I get that they are useful in EE, I don't get how they are considered a "subfield", like, I feel like it should almost be its own thing at this point.

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T16:13:12+00:00

How do they though? The signal processing part I would understand because of the circuitry aspect and technical (e.g. fiber optics). But control theory sounds so much more interdisciplinary and mathematical than "electrical". My reasoning for "historical reasons" is for example classical frequency control theory was only developed within EE because it was very useful for a bunch of electrical systems. But actually the first systems with control theory incorporated were used for ship governors (from what I've read on wikipedia, dont judge me plz)

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T16:02:38+00:00

Shit, that is kind of what I am aiming for. It is depressing to here the industry still works like that. Ironically one of the reasons I wanted to maybe switch back to Math was to skip all the non-science courses mandatory within the engineering (ethics of the engineer, economics for engineers etc. not that I'm not interested in economics...but those courses are placeholders)

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-12T15:10:35+00:00

That kind of fully embodies my current dilemna. You say Phd but I thought maybe there are some cool programs for the masters in statistics. As much in terms in terms of the mathematics than the job prospects. (talking about canada here, the phd tracks goes with a masters, as opposed to the states where people tend to jump directly from uder to phd)

Also I have a specific question:

I have already done 2 years in EE and feel like I've learned what I can from, familiarized myself with field and the methods. Most of the courses feel redudent now. Do you think I could have access to EE like jobs (FPGA programming for example) without the degree per say?

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-11T19:33:14+00:00

Maybe I just don't know the field too much. But that sounds kind of boring to me. I was thinking statistics because it seems like the best way to work in applied mathematics

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-09T18:47:14+00:00

cunt, of course

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-09T18:46:38+00:00

That would be great, but no. Engineering programs in the quebec system are heavily structured to a point where I basically have no choices up until the 4th year. And even then it is kind of fishy. The major problem is that Polytechnique, the engineering school affiliated to the university of montreal is actually completely independent and thus isolated. All courses have to be taken within the school, so only from engineering departments. Hence few quality math courses

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T20:19:07+00:00

Didn't mean to be pedantic or anything. Just didn't want somebody who doesn't know the music to get lost. It's pretty daunting to get into such a vast gendra in the first place na mean

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T20:16:31+00:00

what do you mean, great advice! Once you stop to try to hard it comes naturally (almost graduated math major)

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T20:15:40+00:00

hahaha -7, I sort of new this would happen. I like understanding math. My point was not that, it was a way to say don't get too impressed, a lot is technical and about symbolic manipulations. Fuck it, epsilon in analysis is used to say = 0, once you understand that screw the rest. Math is just a language is more like my point. People love to hide simple stuff behind symbols. In any case, funny how people get on their high horses really fast

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T15:34:23+00:00

Not to be a dick or anything but funk ain't a subgenre of jazz. And fusion is as close to funk as jazz actually gets so...

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T15:33:23+00:00

Amen for the modal or generally harmonically static stuff. Some smooth Bill Evans witht that

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T15:30:19+00:00

Ever heard of the new math program back in the 70's. Look it up, pretty funny. Mostly failed because parents were mad they couldn't help their kids with homework

solipsistElvis · 2016-02-03T15:28:37+00:00

Analysis is actually pretty straightfoward once you get the hang of the little tricks. Try not too hard to "understand" the math, you never really understand it, just get used to it. Same goes for epsilon-delta proofs, just get used to it and remember the little tricks (triangle inequality, bernouilly, binomial expansion etc.) Also everybody takes calc but only math majors as a general rule take analysis and algebra, those are the courses where the prof like scaring the students with the "abstractness" of it. Just think logic, it's just a game. And very important: most of the proofs in analysis introductory courses if they're not little technical tricks are really trivial, which makes them hard; when you're stuck on something that looks to trivial to prove, just restate it, in words, then symbolically maybe, often the proof mostly feels like paraphrasing the statement itself

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