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[annanaka]

I finished my lab report for optics (I always forget about these until the day they are due, not that I could be bothered to do one sooner anyway), and I haven't even started on my quantum homework... but at least I looked at it, right?

I spent last night with Austin, and I really wanted it to be good, but it was just sort of okay, which, all

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[manlystubble]

They let you take complex analysis before real analysis?

[annanaka]

Uhh yeah... complex analysis is WAY easier than real.

[manlystubble]

Was it more of a "do stuff with complex numbers!" class, rather than a "and now we're going to MELT YOUR BRAIN with analysis!" class?

[annanaka]

Um, no, it was an "Elementary Complex Analysis" class, i.e. Cauchy-Riemann krapp and the like. And it's still easier than real (unless you're taking some bullshit real that's really calculus) because half the time everything is just zero anyway. I mean, yeah, it's black magic, but it's not nearly as icky as real. =P

Here's one of my complex homework assignments from last spring to give you an idea of what it was like:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/aabelak/cplx_hwk7.pdf