How good are you at mathemathics?

[VetLegion]

I think we can all agree that mathemathics is essential. If you want to be really good at what you do, you have to have a good grasp of mathemathics, even your area of expertize is economics or history.

If you are, say, a painter, you don't strictly need mathemathics for your work, but you'll need to know how to invest the money when you become rich, and it will be helpful then


So, my question to the general public:

1. What is the highest level of mathemathics you have so far studied?

2. How well have you grasped what you were taught?

3. Are you going to learn more?

[KrazyHorse]

How good are you at mathemathics?

Better than you.

[Az]

Not good enough, sadly.

I've had Calc, Algebra, and differential equations. Maybe I'll take numeric analysis, if I am bored, or something.

[VetLegion]

Sorry for not mentioning mine yet, but I'm not sure about English translations at all.

1. Calculus(?) and Linear Algebra(?)
2. Mediocre
3. Yes. I both have to and want to.

[Dauphin]

Physics/Maths at university. I was doing just fine until I started the third year on General Relativity and Dynamical Systems and Chaos. I tended to wipe them from my memory because it actually required more effort than I was willing to apply to beer and women.

I dropped GR and did Cosmology because it meant I could coast again.

[GePap]

OK, after plenty of study. I have forgotten everything higher than algebra at this point.

[Dauphin]

Is there anything below algebra?

[Az]

define "algebra"

[loinburger]

1. Partial differential equations. (I've also taken some loopy discrete math type courses, and maybe those are higher level, but I hated PDE's much more.)
2. Good enough to pass.
3. Depends. If researching automatic theorem provers counts as math, then yes. Otherwise, probably not.

[Japher]

PDEs... I actually use PDEs at work, so I'm not too bad at it. I always have to look up geometry, but that was always memorizing crap anyway. I have a hard time with matricies, but can still perform linear algebra, just not like that.

Calc is pretty basic by now.

[KrazyHorse]

Anyhow, to answer the questions seriously:

I've taken about 4 courses in analysis (real, complex and on metric spaces in general)

4 in modern algebra (theory of rings, groups, fields)

2 in differential equations (1 ordinary, 1 partial)

1 in differential geometry

2 in modern geometry/topology

It's difficult to say which of these involved the "highest" level of mathematical knowledge. They are all in different branches. All rely on lower math understanding (set theory, calculus etc.)

I grasped it well enough to pass and I remember it as well as could be expected.

I am very likely going to learn more.

[Jon Miller]

I plan on learning more

I understood it pretty well at the time, and still have some understanding now

I haven't taken as much as KH, but have taken a similiar scope (less modern algebra though)

Jon Miller

[The Emperor Fabulous]

<--- Acting Major. Math is of no use to me (especially considering I will be too poor to need to count very high)

[RGBVideo]

1. High school. This is Finland, though, so it's not saying much.
2. I'm not really sure what do you mean by that... there weren't any things I couldn't understand, altough I sometimes had to spend extra sessions of few hours at home reading and practicing (in addition to the normal homework, was that abnormal?) to truly get a hang of all things talked about in the books.
3. In school? I doubt it.

[RGBVideo]

Is there anything below algebra?

Basic arithmetics (algebra with no letters, only numbers).