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John Baez has the following advice:Math is a much more diverse subject than physics, in a way: there are lots of branches you can learn without needing to know other branches first... though you only deeply understand a subject after you see how it relates to all the others!After basic schooling, the customary track through math starts with a bit of:Finite mathematics (combinatorics)CalculusMultivariable calculusLinear algebraOrdinary differential equationsPartial differential equationsComplex analysisReal analysisTopologySet theory and logicAbstract algebranot necessarily in exactly this order. (For example, you need to know a little set theory and logic to really understand what a proof is.) Then, the study of math branches out into a dizzying variety of more advanced topics! It's hard to get the "big picture" of mathematics until you've gone fairly far into it; indeed, the more I learn, the more I laugh at my previous pathetically naive ideas of what math is "all about".  But if you want a glimpse, try these books:F. William Lawvere and Stephen H. Schanuel, Conceptual Mathematics: a First Introduction to Categories, Cambridge University Press, 1997. (A great place to start.)Saunders Mac Lane, Mathematics, Form and Function, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986. (More advanced.)Jean Dieudonne, A Panorama of Pure Mathematics, as seen by N. Bourbaki, translated by I.G. Macdonald, Academic Press, 1982. (Very advanced - best if you know a lot of math already. Beware: many people disagree with Bourbaki's outlook.)I haven't decided on my favorite books on all the basic math topics, but here are a few. In this list I'm trying to pick the clearest books I know, not the deepest ones - you'll want to dig deeper later: Finite mathematics (combinatorics):Ronald L. Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patshnik, Concrete Mathematics, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994. (Too advanced for a first course in finite mathematics, but this book is fun - quirky, full of jokes, it'll teach you tricks for counting stuff that will blow your friends minds!)Calculus:Silvanus P. Thompson, Calculus Made Easy, St. Martin's Press, 1998. (Most college calculus texts weigh a ton; this one from 1910 does not - it just gets to the point. This is how I learned calculus: my uncle gave me a copy. Alas, the new edition has been puffed up to 336 pages by Martin Gardener. People must wantcalculus to seem hard.)Gilbert Strang, Calculus, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Cambridge, 1991. Also available free online athttp://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/strangtext.htm. (Another classic, with lots of applications to real-world problems.)Multivariable calculus:James Nearing, Mathematical Tools for Physics, available at http://www.physics.miami.edu/~ne.... See especially the sections on multvariable calculus, vector calculus 1, and vector calculus 2. (Very nice explanations!)George Cain and James Herod, Multivariable Calculus. Available free online at http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain...Linear algebra:I don't have any favorite linear algebra books, so I'll just list some free ones:Keith Matthews, Elementary Linear Algebra, available free online at http://www.numbertheory.org/book/.Jim Hefferon, Linear Algebra, available free online at http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.h....Robert A. Beezer, A First Course in Linear Algebra, available free online at http://linear.ups.edu/.Ordinary differential equations - some free online books:Bob Terrell, Notes on Differential Equations, available free online at http://www.math.cornell.edu/~bte.... (Does both ordinary and partial differential equations.)James Nearing, Mathematical Tools for Physics, available at http://www.physics.miami.edu/~ne.... See especially the sections on ordinary differential equations and Fourier series (which are good for solving such equations).Partial differential equations - some free online books:Bob Terrell, Notes on Differential Equations, available free online at http://www.math.cornell.edu/~bte.... (Does both ordinary and partial differential equations.)James Nearing, Mathematical Tools for Physics, available at http://www.physics.miami.edu/~ne.... See especially the section on partial differential equations.Complex analysis:George Cain, Complex Analysis, available free online at http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain.... (How can you not like free online?)James Ward Brown and Ruel V. Churchill, Complex Variables and Applications, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003. (A practical introduction to complex analysis.)Serge Lang, Complex Analysis, Springer, Berlin, 1999. (More advanced.)Real analysis:Richard R. Goldberg, Methods of Real Analysis, Wiley, New York, 1976. (A gentle introduction.)Halsey L. Royden, Real Analysis, Prentice Hall, New York, 1988. (A bit more deep; here you get Lebesgue integration and measure spaces.)Topology:James R. Munkres, Topology, James R. Munkres, Prentice Hall, New York, 1999.Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr., Counterexamples in Topology, Dover, New York, 1995. (It's fun to see how crazy topological spaces can get: also, counterexamples help you understand definitions and theorems. But, don't get fooled into thinking this stuff is the point of topology!)Set theory and logic:Herbert B. Enderton, Elements of Set Theory, Academic Press, New York, 1977.Herbert B. Enderton, A Mathematical Introduction to Logic, Academic Press, New York, 2000.F. William Lawvere and Robert Rosebrugh, Sets for Mathematics, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 2002. (An unorthodox choice, since this book takes an approach based on category theory instead of the old-fashioned Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms. But this is the wave of the future, so you might as well hop on now!)Abstract algebra:I didn't like abstract algebra as an undergrad. Now I love it! Textbooks that seem pleasant now seemed dry as dust back then. So, I'm not confident that I could recommend an all-around textbook on algebra that my earlier self would have enjoyed. But, I would have liked these:Hermann Weyl, Symmetry, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1983. (Before diving into group theory, find out why it's fun.)Ian Stewart, Galois Theory, 3rd edition, Chapman and Hall, New York, 2004. (A fun-filled introduction to a wonderful application group theory that's often explained very badly.)Next, here are some books on topics related to mathematical physics. Out of laziness, I'll assume you're already somewhat comfortable with the topics listed above - yes, I know that requires about 4 years of full-time work! - and I'll pick up from there. Here's a good place to start:Paul Bamberg and Shlomo Sternberg, A Course of Mathematics for Students of Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, 1982. (A good basic introduction to modern math, actually.)It's also good to get ahold of these books and keep referring to them as needed:Robert Geroch, Mathematical Physics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985.Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Cecile DeWitt-Morette, and Margaret Dillard-Bleick, Analysis, Manifolds, and Physics (2 volumes), North-Holland, 1982 and 1989.Here are my favorite books on various special topics: Group theory in physics:Shlomo Sternberg, Group Theory and Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1994.Robert Hermann, Lie Groups for Physicists, Benjamin-Cummings, 1966.George Mackey, Unitary Group Representations in Physics, Probability, and Number Theory, Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, California, 1989.Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations - in rough order of increasing sophistication:Brian Hall, Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003.William Fulton and Joe Harris, Representation Theory - a First Course, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1991. (A friendly introduction to finite groups, Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations, including the classification of simple Lie algebras. One great thing is that it has lots of pictures of root systems, and works slowly up a ladder of examples of these before blasting the reader with abstract generalities.)J. Frank Adams, Lectures on Lie Groups, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. (A very elegant introduction to the theory of semisimple Lie groups and their representations, without the morass of notation that tends to plague this subject. But it's a bit terse, so you may need to look at other books to see what's really going on in here!)Daniel Bump, Lie Groups, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004. (A friendly tour of the vast and fascinating panorama of mathematics surrounding groups, starting from really basic stuff and working on up to advanced topics. The nice thing is that it explains stuff without feeling the need to prove every statement, so it can cover more territory.)Geometry and topology for physicists - in rough order of increasing sophistication:Gregory L. Naber, Topology, Geometry and Gauge Fields: Foundations, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1997.Chris Isham, Modern Differential Geometry for Physicists, World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1999. (Isham is an expert on general relativity so this is especially good if you want to study that.)Harley Flanders, Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences, Dover, New York, 1989. (Everyone has to learn differential forms eventually, and this is a pretty good place to do it.)Charles Nash and Siddhartha Sen, Topology and Geometry for Physicists, Academic Press, 1983. (This emphasizes the physics motivations... it's not quite as precise at points.)Mikio Nakahara, Geometry, Topology, and Physics, A. Hilger, New York, 1990. (More advanced.)Charles Nash, Differential Topology and Quantum Field Theory, Academic Press, 1991. (Still more advanced - essential if you want to understand what Witten is up to.)Geometry and topology, straight up:Victor Guillemin and Alan Pollack, Differential Topology, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1974.B.A. Dubrovin, A.T. Fomenko, and S.P. Novikov, Modern Geometry - Methods and Applications, 3 volumes, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1990. (Lots of examples, great for building intuition, some mistakes here and there. The third volume is an excellent course on algebraic topology from a geometrical viewpoint.)Algebraic topology:Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 2002. Also available free at http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hat.... (An excellent modern introduction.)Peter May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999. Also available free at http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~ma.... (More intense.)Knot theory:Louis Kauffman, On Knots, Princeton U. Press, Princeton, 1987.Louis Kauffman, Knots and Physics, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.Dale Rolfsen, Knots and Links, Publish or Perish, Berkeley, 1976.Geometrical aspects of classical mechanics:V. I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, translated by K. Vogtmann and A. Weinstein, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989. (The appendices are somewhat more advanced and cover all sorts of nifty topics.)Analysis and its applications to quantum physics:Michael Reed and Barry Simon, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics (4 volumes), Academic Press, 1980.Homological algebra:Joseph Rotman, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Academic Press, New York, 1979. (A good introduction to an important but sometimes intimidating branch of math.)Charles Weibel, An Introduction to Homological Algebra, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1994. (Despite having the same title as the previous book, this goes into many more advanced topics.)Source: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bo...

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The answer depends on the following.The area of research you are interested in. Not all colleges support research in both Pure an Applied Mathematics. Most Universities usually encourage research in both areas. Your choice is influenced by the city you are in and your preference to travel and stay away from home.The availability of a Research Supervisor willing to oversee your research work. Visiting the department’s website will give you on who’s taking in students under his/her research group.The financial support you hope to receive from your family. If you need to support yourself, you’d wish to enter get recruited as a Junior research fellow. Such Research Assistants get a monthly stipend which may be good enough to support you through your research period. This demands that you qualify as a JRF in the bi-annual Eligibility test conducted by CSIR.Good Luck!!!

Departments of education and school districts always have to make decisions about what to include in their curriculum.  There are a lot of life skills that people need that aren't taught in school.  The question is should those skills be taught in schools?I teach high school, so I'll talk about that.  The typical high school curriculum is supposed to give students a broad-based education that prepares them to be citizens in a democracy and to be able to think critically.  For a democracy to work, we need educated, discerning citizens with the ability to make good decisions based on evidence and objective thought.  In theory, people who are well informed about history, culture, science, mathematics, etc., and are capable of critical, unbiased thinking, will have the tools to participate in a democracy and make good decisions for themselves and for society at large.  In addition to that, they should be learning how to be learners, how to do effective, basic research, and collaborate with other people.  If that happens, figuring out how to do procedural tasks in real life should not provide much of a challenge.  We can't possibly teach every necessary life skill people need, but we can help students become better at knowing how to acquire the skills they need.  Should we teach them how to change a tire when they can easily consult a book or search the internet to find step by step instructions for that?  Should we teach them how to balance a check book or teach them how to think mathematically and make sense of problems so that the simple task of balancing a check book (which requires simple arithmetic and the ability to enter numbers and words in columns and rows in obvious ways) is easy for them to figure out.  If we teach them to be good at critical thinking and have some problem solving skills they will be able to apply those overarching skills to all sorts of every day tasks that shouldn't be difficult for someone with decent cognitive ability  to figure out.  It's analogous to asking why a culinary school didn't teach its students the steps and ingredients to a specific recipe.  The school taught them about more general food preparation and food science skills so that they can figure out how to make a lot of specific recipes without much trouble.  They're also able to create their own recipes.So, do we want citizens with very specific skill sets that they need to get through day to day life or do we want citizens with critical thinking, problem solving, and other overarching cognitive skills that will allow them to easily acquire ANY simple, procedural skill they may come to need at any point in their lives?

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To be honest scoring higher on Math II does look better especially if you’re going to Engineering. Math I covers basic topics that all highschools usually teach.Math II also covers topics that usually all highschools teach, however they are topics that not ALL students really get taught (precalc). Especially since SATs are taken around late soph to early senior year, even if you end up taking pre calculus during senior year, it won’t help as much.