Where I'm At

So it’s almost the end of Winter Quarter 07 at the University of Washington. It’s cold and rainy and lame. Last week I got turned down from the Computer Science program here, which meant I spent the weekend generally freaking out.

In any case, I then remembered that I liked the idea of an ACMS degree. The base of the major consists of the physics series, a Numerical Methods course and a Continuous modeling course from the AMATH department, and discrete models and statistics from the math department.

They have a Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms option, which means I take: A mathematical proofs course, a data structures course, a course on Computer Systems, either a programming languages course or an artificial intelligence course, and an Algorithms and Complexity course. Then I take some classes on linear, nonlinear, and discrete optimization or combinatorial theory.

They also have a scientific computing and numerical algorithms option. With this, the CS courses get traded for some Numerical Analysis math classes and 11 elective credits. This doesn’t sound as exciting, but it still sounds pretty cool. Probably I’ll see how the other stuff goes.

This next quarter I’m signed up for Math 310 and AMATH 353(And german and macroeconomics). The german and econ are for gen-ed requirements. Math 310 is a pre-req for math 327 which is a prereq for the 464 series math courses, as well as a major program requirement. I wouldn’t take AMATH 353, except that Kutz is teaching it. It was never a dull one.

Now, why do I have a blog about all of this? I’d like to chronicle my endeavor into the world of mathematics. So we’ll see how it all works out, I guess. Next up: talk to some advisors. (backposted from a really REALLY long time ago on Feb 8, 2009)