Do You Do Math in Your Spare Time?

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So before I finished getting my AA I stopped at Calc, now that I have no school I don't do any math but I still have my calculus book. I've been debating just doing a few problems out of a section everyday and maybe going through the book teaching myself a bit more plus redoing the sections that I did awhile ago. I'm kinda trying to make sure that mathematics is something that I don't forget.


Have you guys done this before?
 

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I do Maths as my degree...I have no idea why someone would wanna do it in their spare time :scusthov:
 

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I do Maths as my degree...I have no idea why someone would wanna do it in their spare time :scusthov:
Some people like furthering their knowledge on a subject, it's a mental workout, it's like a puzzle. What's the difference between doing a crossword puzzle or sudoku other than the type of puzzle you're solving?
 

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Some people like furthering their knowledge on a subject, it's a mental workout, it's like a puzzle. What's the difference between doing a crossword puzzle or sudoku other than the type of puzzle you're solving?

Yeah, fair enough. I'm all for people keeping their minds stimulated but once you've been down the rabbit hole like I have, there's no such thing as light mathematics to keep you stimulated lol.

I can't wait until I graduate and get into doing finance. I won't ever have to look at another numerical algorithm again :blessed:
 

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Yeah, fair enough. I'm all for people keeping their minds stimulated but once you've been down the rabbit hole like I have, there's no such thing as light mathematics to keep you stimulated lol.

I can't wait until I graduate and get into doing finance. I won't ever have to look at another numerical algorithm again :blessed:
Well see, do you consider yourself a mathematician? Because at my old CC I had dudes who loved to do math and I mean they had done every type of math basically, and were now going into theory but they still thrived off of doing large problems.


What do you want to do?
 

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Well see, do you consider yourself a mathematician? Because at my old CC I had dudes who loved to do math and I mean they had done every type of math basically, and were now going into theory but they still thrived off of doing large problems.


What do you want to do?

Yeah, I consider myself a mathematician since it's always been my best subject which is why I chose to do it as my degree but I'm doing Financial Mathematics so it's all about using numerical algorithms and nonlinear systems to optimise stock portfolios and calculate financial projections.

When I graduate this year, I'm going down the career path of Financial Analyst/Trader. That's where the money is :win:
 

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Btw although I claim to want to be a teacher, being an architect was the first thing I wanted to be (never too late!) But I still just got my basic transfer degree anyway, but to be a architect you only need trig. I did college algebra and calc as well because I wanted the knowledge and I knew I could do it, it's not like my degree was even requiring me to; they just wanted 1 college level math class from me ad you that can be a million things easier than trig.
 

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Yeah, I consider myself a mathematician since it's always been my best subject which is why I chose to do it as my degree but I'm doing Financial Mathematics so it's all about using numerical algorithms and nonlinear systems to optimise stock portfolios and calculate financial projections.

When I graduate this year, I'm going down the career path of Financial Analyst/Trader. That's where the money is :win:
shyt, so you basically would work for a company and tell them how to get the most bang for their buck, right?
 

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shyt, so you basically would work for a company and tell them how to get the most bang for their buck, right?

Yep. The only thing that I hate about it is the amount of data we need before making projections. Can't be making estimates when millions of dollars are on the line :patrice:
 
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