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- W294346869 abstract "*A talk given at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 28, 1970, as part of a Symposium on Mathematics in the Undergraduate Program in the Sciences, jointly sponsored by CUPM. I want to talk specifically about the mathematical training of undergraduate physics majors. However, since at this level there is not a very great difference between the needs of chemists and engineers and those of physicists, we may as well think of discussing in general the mathematical training of students in the physical sciences. There are at least two different schools of thought about the proper mathematical training of an undergraduate physics major. For many years it has been traditional to have a oneor two-semester course for graduate students (or perhaps senior-graduate) in mathematical methods of physics. A similar course at the undergraduate (say, sophomore-junior) level has never become very customary, and I think this is too bad. At the present time the usual physics major picks up a great deal of his knowledge of mathematical techniques in his physics courses, where he must use these methods with little or no previous introduction. The few mathematics courses he does take (probably differential equations and perhaps advanced calculus or complex variable or probability-usually not more than one or two of these) go into much greater detail than he finds either interesting or useful. The topics he does not study in mathematics classes he must master from a sketchy introduction in the physics textbook. If the student is not overwhelmed by the new physical ideas he is trying to master, he is likely to be by the combination of new physics and a new mathematical technique presented simultaneously. Now I am well aware of the physics teacher's counterargument here, that the motivation of the immediate need for a technique is very important and that for this reason the mathematics should not be taught separately. Years of experience have convinced me otherwise." @default.
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- W294346869 title "Mathematics for the Undergraduate Physics Major" @default.
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