Math geeks?

**SeanML** · 11-07-2009 12:04 PM

I'm pretty sure I fit into that category, and damn proud of it. Who else here has a strange attraction to anything logical, or that involves bizarre upside-down versions of common letters and symbols?

Taking a class now that's pretty much multivariable calculus with proofs... have a quiz monday based on the chain rule for scalar fields composed with vector-valued functions. Awesome!

**jsweriduk** · 11-07-2009 12:34 PM

I took multivariable calculus with proofs last year first semester. I'm a freshman in college now... I understood everything you said in your post.

**SeanML** · 11-07-2009 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by jsweriduk

I took multivariable calculus with proofs last year first semester. I'm a freshman in college now... I understood everything you said in your post.

wait... you mean you took multivariable in highschool!? That's nuts, I didn't know there were any highschools that even offered it...

**jsweriduk** · 11-07-2009 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by SeanML

wait... you mean you took multivariable in highschool!? That's nuts, I didn't know there were any highschools that even offered it...

My high school was right across from an ivy league university, and 2 grad students from there came and taught our class of 3.

**SeanML** · 11-07-2009 12:50 PM

oh... well that explains it I guess.

What are you taking now? Analysis? Abstract algebra?

**jsweriduk** · 11-07-2009 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by SeanML

oh... well that explains it I guess.

What are you taking now? Analysis? Abstract algebra?

I was taking Topics in Discrete Math, only I had to drop it because I missed a quiz due to back problems. It was boring anyways...

And I have to take these proficiency exams to place out of multivariable calculus. So I don't know what I'll be taking next trimester...

**Wolfin** · 11-07-2009 01:50 PM

I lol at all the math geeks who have to take computer science first and second year here.

I took it because I'm a computer geek :B

**Clemson_Fan** · 11-08-2009 01:41 AM

Multi-variable was a joke
Im a computer geek and Math geek!

Recently I took a statistics class and got really into it. Taking the next level of that topic next semester.

**Dr_ugmonet** · 11-08-2009 01:47 AM

i havent spent much time in math classes, but i do love me some numbers. in high school, i was more advanced in math than most of the teachers.

in fact, couple of weeks ago, just for fun, i found out the volume of different size bongs for work. it was mainly to figure out how much more 18" tubes are compared to 14" pieces and 2 different diameter tubing... it was fun...

gotta love math

**jsweriduk** · 11-08-2009 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dr_ugmonet

i havent spent much time in math classes, but i do love me some numbers. in high school, i was more advanced in math than most of the teachers.

in fact, couple of weeks ago, just for fun, i found out the volume of different size bongs for work. it was mainly to figure out how much more 18" tubes are compared to 14" pieces and 2 different diameter tubing... it was fun...

gotta love math

I am going to be an engineer, and one of the side things I want to do is longboard-related engineering. I'll bet if I rode enough, I could design the best CNC trucks out there. Unfortunately, I won't have time to... Another thing I want to do is design percolation systems for bongs and water pipes. As a side project, though.

**thebassman** · 11-08-2009 09:29 AM

Learn how to do a rubiks cube

**boarderaholic** · 11-08-2009 09:39 AM

My teacher for my optics course is terrible, he's really slow. I ended up helping teach the lecture half the time because he didn't know what he was doing. I also used to teach kids math as part of an after school tutorial program.

**a_speck_of_dust** · 11-08-2009 09:49 AM

im good at algebra 2...

**mehbear!** · 11-08-2009 10:51 AM

I take algebra 2 as a freshman. I'm one of 3 freshies in my class and I take it with sophmores and juniors. I get the highest grades in the class

I haven't gotten below a 100 on a test yet and other people are failing them :/

**HerBDerb** · 11-08-2009 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by mehbear!

I take algebra 2 as a freshman. I'm one of 3 freshies in my class and I take it with sophmores and juniors. I get the highest grades in the class

I haven't gotten below a 100 on a test yet and other people are failing them :/

Riveting tale, chap.

**SeanML** · 11-08-2009 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by thebassman

Learn how to do a rubiks cube

I can do the 4x4x4...

**CRASS** · 11-08-2009 06:41 PM

i was in algebra a for 5 years.

**smallss** · 11-09-2009 08:30 AM

Not necessarily a math geek, but the fibonacci sequence and other patterns involving sacred geometry have kept me much more interested in mathematics than the standard number crunching.

**Midway** · 11-09-2009 09:32 AM

I suck at math, but have wicked problem-solving skills when it comes to mechanical things. Gonna be a tech engineer. Glad you guys get to do all the math for me.

**Clemson_Fan** · 11-09-2009 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by smallss

Not necessarily a math geek, but the Fibonacci sequence and other patterns involving sacred geometry have kept me much more interested in mathematics than the standard number crunching.

The thing about mathematical symmetry is a lot of time its not actually symmetry at all, its just a direct result of whatever conditions your under.

But I do agree with you the Fibonacci is pretty cool: