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Joshua P. Nichols-Barrer '00, one of the two course assistants for the class, says that Math 55 is more difficult than most undergraduate mathematics courses...
...Math 55 covers the content of Math 21 with maximal generality and rigor," he says. "It is comparable to a graduate course. The types of assumptions it makes about students are more akin to graduate level than 100-level courses, which you can walk in on with no background on the material...
...Math 55] pretty much destroyed my year last year," he says. "I was doing more work for Math 55 than for all my other classes combined, and I wasn't even completing all the work. It was really painful and just too hard...
Eleanor E. Williams '02 started out in Math 55 this semester but dropped out after the first problem set was returned...
...took it] for the challenge, because several of my friends are taking it, and probably because my sister had taken it," Williams says. "It's also a bit of a `status'thing as far as math majors here are concerned...