now my turn to blab on bout maths 1A, discrete & finite.
ive also done 4U maths, it's very useful for maths1A when it cums to the complex number & integration by substitution topics - cos u've done them, so u can skip those 9am maths lectures
. But other than dat its not much difference.
If u keep up with the tut work & clear up problems u hve in tuts i think maths 1A should be fine for ppl who havent done 3/4U maths. BTW u lucky ppl this year get 2 maths tuts per week!!
oh discrete... its a quite difficult subject, some of the questions u do are similar to the ones u find in the maths competition. It may take some time for you to understand the concepts etc, but when u get it & start applying it, its very interesting. Esp learnin how maths can be applied in the strangest ways. NB Hisrchorn is great discrete tutor!! but 'sometimes' he does go off track
& havin done 2U or 3U or even 4U maths will not benefit u much with discrete, dunno if dats really a good thing or not.
finite... arrr... well it was interesting at times... with encoding & decoding messages. i think one of the reasons why this subject is hard is because lectures are 4-6, which is quite late & u only hve tuts every 2-3 weeks, so ur practically on ur own most of the time. But the lecturer is quite interesting.
