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Comment author: [deleted] 04 February 2013 06:12:01PM *  1 point [-]

I'm still working on deciding what I'm into; I was hoping for something like a general overview of the maths used in different fields (whichever ones you felt like writing about about). But since you're wanting examples, I'll list some things I might or might not read and would like to know what math would enable understanding them

or learning computational cognitive science

And are the math courses listed in Louie Helm's course recommendations everything I need to understand the rest of the courses in it?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 04 February 2013 06:41:53PM 2 points [-]

And are the math courses listed in Louie Helm's course recommendations everything I need to understand the rest of the courses in it?

I don't know! But I'll attempt to suggest untested heuristics for answering this question.