Anybody with a maths degree here?

w11tho said:
I think it's more prominent from the applied->pure direction, i.e. more applied guys know a fair bit of pure maths. This is the nature of the beast: applied guys often need to understand a few different areas to attack a problem. Pure guys tend to specialise more and more, working on a variant of a proof of a conjecture in a super-duper advanced area. Whilst they wouldn't be so upto date with the applied side of things, I'm fairly sure most of them would pick it back up again. In fact, I'm positive.

And as I mentioned, theoretical physics is absolutely rife with advanced pure mathematics. Many pure mathematicians, sometimes accidentally, find out they've been working on a major problem in physics.

But hey, if you know 5 guys... then I guess you know best! ;)
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I agree with your points mate. I don't want to argue at the moment as I have bigger things to worry about ATM
 
I wasn't being facetious. I didn't really think we were arguing - we were discussing different experiences. No one's out to get you!

Hope it all goes well.
 
w11tho said:
Not sure to be honest. If they give you book tokens, then I imagine you can spend them on any book relevant to your degree.

Or you could just save up for them? I think the Roger Penrose book I mentioned goes for around a tenner.
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To prove i need help is already costing me £500 and they want me to do it again for the third year because they fail to understand that i will always be like this.

Ill be damned if i don't use every token they give me lol.

Vixen said:
I wouldn't bother buying books until you start the course and see if you think you'll actually need them. It all depends on the lecturer - some will provide material that follows the recommended books very closely, some will just provide so much material that you never need to look at a book and some provide as little as they possibly can. I have found that books are more important in practical subjects or for projects than things like maths where you won't be asked to work on something you've not covered.
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Yeah probably the best thing. Ive put an order in for the book leeds advised me to get because they appear to be sold out almost everywhere.
 
I'm guessing like w11tho I didn't really need any books just attending the lectures. Even if you have a learning disability like I do, they're not essential. Most blackwells academic books stores accept last editions of major textbooks and sell them on for a lower price. Just pop down to one of those and see if you can afford them. If not MIT's opencourseware series offer videio lectures covering lots of fundamental 1st year material.
 
8igdave said:
To prove i need help is already costing me £500 and they want me to do it again for the third year because they fail to understand that i will always be like this.

Ill be damned if i don't use every token they give me lol.
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I'd assume that there is some monetary benefit to shelling out the £500. But yes, if they give you book tokens, then you can use them on books!
 
w11tho said:
I'd assume that there is some monetary benefit to shelling out the £500. But yes, if they give you book tokens, then you can use them on books!
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Nope with my conditions the only benefits ill be getting out of it is the extra time, larger paper and possibly book tokens. But without extra time and larger papers ill fail. Yeah i gues ill go shoping with them if i get them see all the things i can get.
 
8igdave said:
Nope with my conditions the only benefits ill be getting out of it is the extra time, larger paper and possibly book tokens. But without extra time and larger papers ill fail. Yeah i gues ill go shoping with them if i get them see all the things i can get.
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8igdave said:
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My edited post basically just said that I don't think you should see not having extra time, larger print etc... as something that will MAKE you fail. I never had it (though I don't know which learning disability you have) and I passed without any help. So perhaps you don't need to look at it as something that will make you pass or fail
 
dangerstat said:
My edited post basically just said that I don't think you should see not having extra time, larger print etc... as something that will MAKE you fail. I never had it (though I don't know which learning disability you have) and I passed without any help. So perhaps you don't need to look at it as something that will make you pass or fail
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My eyes alternate so i read very badly. In my english paper they gave me a normal sized one and because they altinate i missed out an entire line of text on the 50% essay question and wrote a totally wrong answer. It had to go into special consideration. I very much need the bigger papers. And due to my slower reading i very much need extra time, i cant finish any papers without it usually.

Now i think about it, i believe the book tokens will be for me to get larger print books. I actually don't read books any more becaues they give me headaches and its such a mission i miss out so many words i gave up. It's a shame because i like reading.

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But obviously i read text books for academic reasons. But i don't read for fun any more.
 
8igdave said:
My eyes alternate so i read very badly. In my english paper they gave me a normal sized one and because they altinate i missed out an entire line of text on the 50% essay question and wrote a totally wrong answer. It had to go into special consideration. I very much need the bigger papers. And due to my slower reading i very much need extra time, i cant finish any papers without it usually.

Now i think about it, i believe the book tokens will be for me to get larger print books. I actually don't read books any more becaues they give me headaches and its such a mission i miss out so many words i gave up. It's a shame because i like reading.

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But obviously i read text books for academic reasons. But i don't read for fun any more.
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You can buy an eReader and inflate the text size. If your anything like me, printing black text of different coloured backgrounds helps with reading and not getting head aches. Have a go with it and see how you get on.
 
8igdave said:
Nope with my conditions the only benefits ill be getting out of it is the extra time, larger paper and possibly book tokens. But without extra time and larger papers ill fail. Yeah i gues ill go shoping with them if i get them see all the things i can get.
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Have you spoken to the disability service at your uni about your allowances? I have an illness that can affect me in a similar way to dyslexia and I was given a dictaphone to record lectures. You should also get copies of all slides/notes used by lecturers that you'd otherwise be expected to write during a lecture.
 
dangerstat said:
You can buy an eReader and inflate the text size. If your anything like me, printing black text of different coloured backgrounds helps with reading and not getting head aches. Have a go with it and see how you get on.
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Vixen said:
Have you spoken to the disability service at your uni about your allowances? I have an illness that can affect me in a similar way to dyslexia and I was given a dictaphone to record lectures. You should also get copies of all slides/notes used by lecturers that you'd otherwise be expected to write during a lecture.
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Cheers, both of these ideas would be brilliant. Ill definitely look into it. Unfortunately till i get the report done i doubt ill be able to get very far into finding out what i can get. Im meeting up with the doctor on Friday to have tests down and get a full report written up.
 
I think I agree with dangerstat on this one. I have extra time on offer (25%, so significant amounts) and am refusing it. Doubtless getting worse grades as a result since I run out of time. I don't think your response to this will be positive, but I'm an engineering student. If I can't do the work in the same time as other people, I shouldn't have a better grade. Otherwise I'm setting myself up to fail in industry where I don't get 25% extra time to meet a deadline.

This is also a reading issue, though a difficult one to descibe. I do shapes of entire words instead of letters, and don't do syllables. Former means I get words wrong, latter means I spell things wrong as I miss the error checking of sounding things out as I type. Loads of fun, I get "read the question" written on a lot of things.

I think inaccurate reading is going to cruxify you in mathematics. Especially if you have trouble distinguishing letters from one another. "My eyes alternate so i read very badly" doesn't make sense to me, can't really tell what you're describing.

Most books are available in electronic form. Black text on light blue or screen helps me, strangely. I think I'm going to get back into the habit of taking a laptop to lectures, plan is being able to look up things online while the lecture is going on.


RHB is fantastic. People are attached to it with good reason :)
Any of the ones you know natscis by any chance?
 
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