Do you like math?

@FluxWaveZ: Well, take the problem like the wrappers, right? Remember back in those beautiful Alg. 2 days of linear programming? Well, beautiful as in very easy, but nonetheless - calculus can take a meticulous or very constantly repetitive situation and make it simple just through knowledge of rules and using stuff like integrals - something linear programming gave us a very absic idea of. It's just min/max'ing taken to the extent of being able to pinpoint very specific circumstances in a situation; say, drilling for oil given specific man hours and manpower, what would be an optimal usage of resources - I dunno that's bad and more of a linear prog. problem, but it's on the fly and I'm tired.

Also, derivatives and integrals lead to applications in very complex fields - internal thermodynamics, expansion in chemistry, entropy, blah blah blah are all reliant on calculus.

EDIT: it's all dependent on the field too. If you're going to be doing the nitty gritty in building an engine, you don't really need to know high level calculus like this, you're still an "engineer" but you have that analytic mind. Or you're the dweeb designing perfect ratios for the engine to be built with, the parts have a specific composition necessary to run, etc.

@FluxWaveZ: Some real world applications of derivatives and integrals is in physics.

Also, derivatives and integrals lead to applications in very complex fields - internal thermodynamics, expansion in chemistry, entropy, blah blah blah are all reliant on calculus.

@FluxWaveZ: Some real world applications of derivatives and integrals is in physics.

@FluxWaveZ: Those are just straight up math teachers. My high school analytic geometry teacher was a real hard-ass because she thought it was all easy stuff and that we should get it without being taught an actual lesson - and in reality it was easy, we were just being dumb and lazy. You're so busy going "WTF!" that you don't notice everyone else doing the same thing. Going from that abstraction to the realization is the hardest thing - you just gotta keep plugging along till it makes sense.

I kind of like it, but I'm not great at it.

I hate math

I thought I'd might be a math minor until I hit a proofs class. I'm in a class called Modern Linear Algebra and it's kicking my ass. Proof writing sucks. Never thought I'd want to go back to Calc 3, but I miss my Jacobians and spherical coordinate systems.....not really.

@FluxWaveZ: That's great. A simple example is that the derivative of a velocity function will get you acceleration. So if you have a velocity of X^2, your acceleration is 2X.

No

well, i dunno about liking it, but i'm not good at it. at all.

I love math, I just hate having to crunch numbers myself.

Indifferent....and I was expecting this to be a homework help thread.

I hate it! With that said I have to take a lot of math courses for my computer science degree. Currently making my way through calc....

English is my thang, but I like algebra. Everything else is stupid and way to in depth for little ol' me.....

I really like maths, there's some thing really satisfying when everything comes together and a set of arbitrary steps in a calculation all just clicks and you understand every part of it. Though I'm doing differential Equations and Fourier series at the moment and they just seem long winded more than anything, I had a lot more fun with the vector calculus last year.

However at the end of the day for me its just a stepping stone to physics, which is my real passion, even if classical physics blows hard. I can't wait til nuclear physics next year.

no, i don't like math. basic math, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing is good, but i don't like other math. after that it gets harder to figure things out.

I only like Geometry, Algebra can fuck off!

English is my thang, but I like algebra. Everything else is stupid and way to in depth for little ol' me.....

Be buggered if I can remember any of it now, but I always liked it in high school. Math is easy as hell once you realize that there's generally only one answer to every question and you just need to remember the applicable formula, it's basically just following a set of instructions at that point.

I used to like math, that was until i got into higher calculus (i hate you laplace transforms) and i had to do it in my every waking hour and in every class. There are days, more so now, that i wish i had chosen a major that did not use such complex calculations.

I love algebra because it's just a puzzle, a lot of the other stuff can lose me though. I passed at A-Level with a decent grade and am now doing comp sci which is 100% algebra-ish.

Absolutely not. I do like music though which is connected to maths.

Yeah for the most part, even though some of the higher math I took in college was a trial. At that point it didn't feel like I was solving a puzzle, but more studying what some genius guy thought up to prove this theorem.

I am the literal worst at math. Fuck that subject.

Love it, that's why I am studying engineering

Math is awesome!

Too bad a lot of the elementary and high school curricula are designed to beat the fascination with math out of students.

I hated math for some reason in high school. But now in college I am loving it. It is supper easy. I am currently taking trig and statistics at the same time, passing both easily.

Dropped Calc II twice. I'm sure I could have done it if I actually stayed up with the work, but I didn't care to. Switched majors and said goodbye to math forever. So, no, not a big fan.

Though I should say, I have a great respect for it, and it can be very rewarding when everything is clicking.

No, Took all the math classes I needed at the beginning of the semester to get them over with.

I respect math.
 
I'm good at more logic based math, but when things start getting complex, I suck. For instance, I'm really good at Algebra and manipulating problems in unorthodox ways, and I got great SAT and SAT II scores, but I'm ass at Calculus (also, my professor sucks. 2.2 on rate my professor).

Not my cup of tea.

Currently taking College Algebra and it is kicking my ass. But hey, ask me to write down the quadratic formula and I will do it. Math has never really been my strongest subject. Doesn't help that my major is Computer Science which means that I will have to take more math courses down the road. If things don't get better then I might just have to change my major.

I love math. Best subject aside from maybe biology, physique and chemistry.

Doesn't help that my major is Computer Science which means that I will have to take more math courses down the road. If things don't get better then I might just have to change my major.

@FluxWaveZ: Give khan academy a try. It really helped me get through some of my harder math classes.

@FluxWaveZ: Give khan academy a try. It really helped me get through some of my harder math classes.

I loved it up until senior year of college, then I completely lost interest in math (I was an actuarial mathematics major). It gets a little boring after a while.

@Xtrememuffinman said:

I respect math. I'm good at more logic based math, but when things start getting complex, I suck. For instance, I'm really good at Algebra and manipulating problems in unorthodox ways, and I got great SAT and SAT II scores, but I'm ass at Calculus (also, my professor sucks. 2.2 on rate my professor).

Dude, not to be a dick, but SAT and SAT II level algebra is nothing. Getting good scores on those tests only proves that your school is not wholly incompetent. Unfortunately, many are, and that is why math standards are so low.

Also, all math is logic based. That's kind of the point.

I used to be good at it, when i was younger, even went to a competition of some sort. Unfortunately, years of smoking, neglect towards my studies and dare i say it? Video games have left my brain the equivalent of a plant. I still appreciate math, although i hate doing it. 

@Xtrememuffinman said:

I respect math. I'm good at more logic based math, but when things start getting complex, I suck. For instance, I'm really good at Algebra and manipulating problems in unorthodox ways, and I got great SAT and SAT II scores, but I'm ass at Calculus (also, my professor sucks. 2.2 on rate my professor).

Dude, not to be a dick, but SAT and SAT II level algebra is nothing. Getting good scores on those tests only proves that your school is not wholly incompetent. Unfortunately, many are, and that is why math standards are so low.

Also, all math is logic based. That's kind of the point.

Did anybody else read that as "Do you like meth"? No? Uh, yea, me neither. *nervously backs out of thread*

@Xtrememuffinman: Ok, that makes sense. I can see why you might feel that way, but let me tell you, once you have those fundamentals down, calc makes for some great puzzles. It's amazing stuff, and when you understand, it can change the way you view the world.

Hope I didn't come off as aggressive towards you. The only thing I was pissed off with there was the American school system.

Math is ok until you get into Calculus and beyond, then it just becomes a book of satanic worship and voodoo witchcraft. Serious.

For a second I thought the title of this thread was 'Do you like meth?"

...no to both by the way...

@eroticfishcake said:

I appreciate it for what it is.

I'm fucking terrible at it though.

I like what its existence allows us to create as a species, but no I personally hate doing math. It's all just remembering formulas and I suck at memorization.

Where is the "FUCK OFF I HATE THAT FUCKING SHIT" button? I'm not terrible at it, I just find it to be the most boring, repetitive shit ever.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@hinderk said:

@FluxWaveZ: Give khan academy a try. It really helped me get through some of my harder math classes.

Thanks, I'll try it out. I had heard of it before, but I never really considered using the site.

Also, this guy has some really easy to understand videos. He helped me scrape by in my Discrete Structures class when I was cramming for the final. I think he's mostly focused on Calc stuff, which you probably have to do anyway.

I know your pain. I'm a former CSC major before I decided that Calc II wasn't happening, and before I took a year between programming classes and forgot mostly everything. Good luck!

I like math. I don't like sequences and series. Worst part of calculus.