Timeline for answer to Switching to Maths after Physics Undergrad by Nik
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| Apr 23, 2023 at 2:32 | history | undeleted | Nik | ||
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| Apr 23, 2023 at 2:31 | comment | added | Nik | @YemonChoi when did I say that a student that has done mostly physics courses (and nothing else) would be sufficiently prepared for a Part III course on algebra? I replied to OP's incorrect claim that they restrict physics students to "courses like QFT". Also, pure math courses aren't the only courses that involve proofs. My "claim" was partially based on that. | |
| Apr 23, 2023 at 0:00 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | "You will have more opportunities for exposure to what you call "proof based math" in the more senior years of your undergraduate studies" - on what do you base this claim? The pure maths stream at Cambridge tends to be rather cumulative in nature, and I suspect that lecturers of Y3 pure maths courses will assume that the students in the class have absorbed basic techniques of "proof based maths" from previous years. | |
| Apr 22, 2023 at 23:42 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | It seems to me that you are theorizing about how things like Part III work based on reading about things you have not experienced. My own experience of the Maths Tripos + Part III is somewhat out of date but I think your final quote is a misunderstanding of what is implied. There might not be a rule saying that a student who has done mostly Physics courses at UG cannot take Part III algebra, but I think it is very likely they will not have sufficient preparation in UG algebra | |
| Apr 22, 2023 at 22:10 | history | answered | Nik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |