Maths Major Question (1 Viewer)

[hundredpercent]

I am planning to major in Mathematics for the science component of my degree. I know that I have to complete the following level 2 courses:

MATH2011 Several Variable Calculus (Sem 1 Course)
MATH2501 Linear Algebra (Sem 1 Course)
MATH2121 Theory and Applications of Differential Equations (Sem 2 Course)
MATH2521 Complex Analysis (Sem 2 Course)
MATH2801 Theory of Statistics

Now, I was wondering if doing MATH2011 and 2501 helped in any way with doing 2121 and 2521. I know that on the handbook, the only prerequisites for all the courses are MATH1231/41 etc but was just wondering if doing Several Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra actually makes the semester 2 courses easier? Or is it all new stuff and it doesn't matter what order you do them in?

Tldr: Will it make a difference if I do MATH2121 and MATH2521 in Sem 2 this year and MATH2011 and MATH2501 Sem 1 next year? Or should I be doing MATH2011/MATH2501 before the other two?

Thanks

 

[menodiks]

no not really, though u might have a minor advantage for 1 topic in 2121 if u did 2501, otherwise its all new and in competely different directions

 

[erckle999]

Out of those subjects the only two in which doing one before the the other is significantly useful is MATH2011 (Several Variable Calc) before MATH2521 (Complex Analysis).

In complex analysis you need some tools from multivariable calculus (even at a basic level, you can think of a complex function as a function of two variables, the real part and the imaginary part) and a large part of of complex integration is using techiniques from vector calculus (the second half of 2011). Countour integrals in complex analysis are basically line integrals from vector calc in 2011, and so on.

The rest can be done in any order. Note also that complex analysis is not really a prerequisite for anything, so if you postpone it for a year it won't matter that much.