"Easiest" branches of math? From someone feeling acute…
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"Easiest" branches of math? From someone feeling acute imposter syndrome
Are there "easier" branches of math?
**Context:** I'm heading to a master's program in math at an EU school after a decade of working as a software engineer. Despite spending the past year taking a total of six math courses, all upper-class or grad level, I am feeling a bit incompetent. I'm brute forcing my way through grad complex analysis after only ever taking analysis 1 over a decade ago, and I didn't do much better in undergrad algebra 2, despite taking two algebra classes a decade ago.
I fear that my time away has stripped away my fundamentals and I haven't been able to build them back as much as I'd hoped.
I'm doing a summer research program on rep theory designed for undergrads, and it is taking me like 5x as long as the others to get it. I'm barely useful, only finding minor errors days after the others complete the work.
So.. while I enjoyed algebra in my undergrad, it feels too "hard" now that it's getting more sophisticated. I don't have much hope for analysis either, given I never took analysis 2. I don't know where to pivot.
Any advice is appreciated.
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Are there "easier" branches of math?
**Context:** I'm heading to a master's program in math at an EU school after a decade of working as a software engineer. Despite spending the past year taking a total of six math courses, all upper-class or grad level, I am feeling a bit incompetent. I'm brute forcing my way through grad complex analysis after only ever taking analysis 1 over a decade ago, and I didn't do much better in undergrad algebra 2, despite taking two algebra classes a decade ago.
I fear that my time away has stripped away my fundamentals and I haven't been able to build them back as much as I'd hoped.
I'm doing a summer research program on rep theory designed for undergrads, and it is taking me like 5x as long as the others to get it. I'm barely useful, only finding minor errors days after the others complete the work.
So.. while I enjoyed algebra in my undergrad, it feels too "hard" now that it's getting more sophisticated. I don't have much hope for analysis either, given I never took analysis 2. I don't know where to pivot.
Any advice is appreciated.
#science
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