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...Math 55, officially known as “Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra,” is essentially a nine-month mathematical boot camp. The course teaches four years of math in two semesters. “It’s an intense, warp-speed survey of the entire undergraduate math curriculum in one year,” Harrison says...
...class, in fact, includes subjects most math students will not encounter until graduate school. “This is probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country,” reads a page on the Mathematics Department Web site. While other universities like MIT offer similar, highly competitive courses, Math 55 is singular in its history and renown...
...It’s such a tradition in Harvard math culture,” says Raymond T. Pierrehumbert ’76, who took Math 55 as an undergrad and now teaches at the University of Chicago...
...mathematics professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania David Harbater ’74, Math 55 still holds sway. “If someone applies to graduate school at Penn, and I see that he or she was in Math 55, that would certainly get my attention. It definitely means something...
Regardless of the course’s name brand value, Math 55 students face a single fact: It’s hard. Really hard...