Maths and Theoretical Physics Course Thread TR031 TR035

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Frolovs already teaching 3 modules so I don't think it will be him. There are 3 new lecturers so it could be one of them? Although there's still nobody down for teaching first year mechanics or PNS...

For second years, beware that Zaitsev expects a lot more on his schols exam than his course might suggest.

@Maybe_Memories thanks ^^

I'm doing Statistics instead of Mechanics in 2nd year, but thanks @sponsoredwalked

Is there any recommended reading to cover all the stuff Zaitsev will expect on the schols paper?

Maybe_Memories wrote: »

The stuff in class will probably be at the level of the book by Churchill, so use that as a basis and supplement with the book by Bruce Palka which is basically what he uses for the sophister complex analysis course.

As an aside, he seems to be a very generous marker; in the sophister course for the first half I only felt like I did well enough to get 60-70% but ended up with 87%.

He's quite generous for the end of year exam but is is very harsh for schols. People who thought the paper went okay on the day ended up getting in the 20's in his part of the exam.

He doesn't use a particular textbook and recommends quite a few, so you might just have to trawl through several to find an appropriate treatment of a topic. In particular, I never really found a good resource for understanding branches.

I have no advice for studying Zaitsevs material, but if you do find yourself completely lost in his lectures (I did) a fun game to play is: where will he write next?

Samson likes to get it all over with in one day. It's actually fine. I enjoyed Samson's lectures and he'll give you breaks every hour. Sometimes, he'll finish early if he doesn't want to start anything new or if his back hurts.

Everything starts next week right?

BeanbagBallbag wrote: »

Has anyone here avoided going to Simms' lectures? If so, how did you give in/get back homework?

Simms doesn't set homework for MA2321 or MA2322, at least not last year.

BeanbagBallbag wrote: »

What about these exercises?

Sorry, I should have said Simms doesn't collect/mark/give back any homework. He usually hands out exercises for you to do yourself, then goes through solutions in class a week later.

sganyfx wrote: »

Anyone got any Schols advice for Sergey? Metric Spaces and Rings, Fields Modules specifically?

First of all you need to understand the homeworks inside out. Last year anyway they were all pretty tough. He doesn't explain things in tutorials if no one asks so always push him to answer ones you didn't get. And for anything else try posting on maths.stackexchange.com , people or always really helpful with explanations there.

Use his notes religiously (there were some odd mistakes though, be careful). Last year he specifically said that he wouldn't ask any of the proofs he covered in class. But realistically you need to understand each one, go through each line and make sure you get the steps. The notes were enough for Metrics but 'Abstract Algebra' was quite good for Fields.

Above and beyond this you need to look at as many problems as you can. Try looking at notes for similar courses and look at worked solutions. Go at a slower pace where you feel you are understanding 90% of the content rather than racing through trying to cover everything 5 times.
Best of luck!

kcull wrote: »

Hey guys! Humble sixth year here, Econ/Maths TSM is numero uno on the CAO and I can't even express how much I'm looking forward to it. One question though! I'm pretty good at maths, I absolutely love it (happily while away the hours doing problems) and would be pretty much an A student at leaving cert. I came here to do some research and now from what I have read on this thread I'm suddenly terrified about the difficulty of it, are you all geniuses? (modesty nonwithstanding!) Will I fail, hate it because I'm terrible and flunk out in first year? Thanks and sorry for interrupting the much more important actual maths questions discussion!

You should come to the open day for 6'th years on Saturday in tcd and find out for yourself (You may have to book a place, idk, should be easy to do). I'm a bit of an idiot but luckily intelligence is nowhere near as important as craziness and passion, it's 90% perspiration after all

Dirac Brackets in Weinberg 7.6! :cool:

Perhaps there's a chance to resurrect this topic to get some more fantastic replies.

-SW