Opinion of multivariable calculus (also known as Calculus III)
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« on: November 18, 2014, 07:29:31 PM »

Inspired by Walter Mitty's old trig question.  

Easily the best math course I've taken in college.  

Dot/cross products and surface/line integrals were some of my favorite topics in math, along with probability.  
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2014, 10:47:20 PM »

Not required, but I bought a book since I'm probably going to need the knowledge for Grad school down the road. Difficult but I think that's partially not having guidance. Very important overall.

Self-learning math classes is hard. 

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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2014, 01:53:55 AM »

     Fun class. Also rather easy after single-variable calculus.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2014, 02:13:07 AM »

Never took it, but considering the hell I went through in Calc I/II, horrible.
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2014, 03:34:59 PM »

It is both more useful and more important than Calc II. A large portion of Calc II involves tricks of analytical solutions that aren't so necessary in an age where computer access and computation is widely available. OTOH, Calc III brings in new concepts that apply the ideas of calculus to three dimensions, and having those concepts become very important in the STEM field.
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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2014, 03:37:55 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2014, 03:39:44 PM »

Everything about it is awful
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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2014, 04:30:31 PM »

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"Calc III," as I know of it, is split between the analytical geometry of space and multivariable calculus. But the class is still designed for engineers first and foremost, and the goal is to reach a bunch of formulas. Then you have this weird setup where the geometry part is taught in the right way, but the calculus part isn't.

I actually learned multivariable calculus after linear algebra, and therefore got the proper definition of the derivative as a linear operator associated with a function in Euclidean space. The result is that operations like "totally differentiate," "constrained optimization," "change of variables" and "Stokes's Formula" make much more intuitive sense than you would expect them to.
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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2014, 10:37:57 PM »

I will take it next year, sounds okay.
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