>>11211691> I spent 2 and a half hours on applied math problems and I'm supposed to be a math major.Firstly, there is nothing wrong with applications. They often shed the light on stuff from a different perspective and serve as a source of new problems. Of course, there is a fringe snobby attitude among some pure mathematicians (or just undergrads) that applications=stoopid engineer.
Secondly, don't bump in a fucking hour on a slow thematic board you imbecile.
Finally, here is a perspective from someone from Russia: as a math major, I knew lots of algebra (basic abstract algebra like R-modules and PIDs, representations theory, exterior algebra), homological algebra (exact sequences, Ext/Tor functors, etc.), (co)homology theory (universal coefficients, Mayers-Vietoris, de Rham cohomology, some K-theory),measure theory (Lesbesgue mostly), functional analysis, topology (general, algebraic), algebraic geometry (standard stuff + schemes and ring spectrums), differential geometry (through differential forms), Riemannian geometry (and some Kahler manifolds), Riemann-Roch theorem and we barely touched the Atiyah-Singer index theorem in the K-theory course.
There was some applied stuff but it was not the focus, so I still knew how to calculate a vector flux through a surface or solve an ODE system.
But this was a *pure* math course. Are you sure you are not at applied math program?
