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MLBloomy posted...

How much proof writing is in your math background? College was a while ago for me, but I don't think there was much in the way of proofs in the courses you listed (IIRC, the math requirements generally needed for an engineering degree). There may have been some in the first Linear Algebra course you encounter as an undergrad, but things get proof heavy once you get past that, like the Analysis, Topology and Abstract Algebra (groups / rings / fields) mentioned.

Set Theory is as well, though I don't think that built on too much that came before it. It kind of brings things full circle, because one of the things you'll do with the concepts there is define numbers and the basic arithmetic operations. Also involved one of the most interesting things I learned in college - you prove that some infinities are bigger than others. (There are just as many integers as there are rational numbers, but there are explicitly more real numbers.)

We wrote proofs a couple times in Geometry in high school. I kinda hated it NGL because if you perform the dastardly evil of just adding some stuff together off panel because, you know, there's a plus sign between them, instead of writing out "I added this shit together because DURRRRRRR" as a formal step in the proof, the teacher counts off.

I'm hoping that's just a teachers gonna teach thing though.