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		bndr on Feb 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathe... I would disagree, Calculus and Linear Algebra ist only the first semester usually, then it gets harder (Analysis, Statistics, Crypto)

uncultured on Feb 4, 2015 [–]

I was actually being cautious. American colleges like to make sure you pay for as many BS courses as possible. Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Calculus 3...

Besides, I never heard of math majors taking cryptography that early. Usually, Intro to Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra and Abstract Linear Algebra come first.

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