I think,near 1.It's quite enough for creating phisical model of phenomena, especially phenomenological model.Furthermore,the total sum of abstract math knowledge and common sense in every brain is a constant,imho [smile]
PS Nice cat,but I like this cat more...

the problem with a 1-10 (10 being a nobel prize equivilant of math or someit) is the vast majority of ppl will rate 1 on the linear scale, logarithmic should be used

Quote: Original post by zedz
the problem with a 1-10 (10 being a nobel prize equivilant of math or someit) is the vast majority of ppl will rate 1 on the linear scale, logarithmic should be used

I was using a logarithmic scale. I'm still a three to their ten.

Quote: Original post by Naxos
I got a math minor with my cs degree. So that's 3 Calculus courses, matrix theory, discrete math, numerical analysis, and 2 statistics courses.

I made good scores in those classes at the time, but if I were to retake the finals on any of the courses today, without a doubt, I would fail them.

Right now I'm also taking a graduate level discrete math course, aimed at CS students (you can check it out here). It's kicking my butt.

So given all that, I'd have to give myself something in the range of 1 to 3.

I am a math major. No offense at all, and I really really mean it. But this is not graduate level math. This is 1st to second year introductory discrete math. I would say this level of math should be rated about 2 on the scale for reference.

Aside from not having a scale, what are we rating?

How do you define "math skills"? My memory is very poor, so even though I've had several calculus courses, I couldn't complete most calculus problems without resources. However, I know enough about math and learning that if I had an appropriate calculus textbook, I could work through the problem with time and effort. Similarly, I've been though linear algebra, logic, stasticis, and several other areas of math. Some of them I can work without a reference simply because they're intuitive to me, but I'm bad with the jargon and the memorization so that I fare far better when I have access to wikipedia, mathworld, et al. Oh, and my TI-92+ helps significantly, too. Compared to most I know, I'm a math master simply because I can understand text books and references and use them to work out things I don't know (whether I did at some time previous or not).

On the other hand, I frequently feel that the math in academic papers omit too much information for the formulas and algorithms to be meaningful. Most of the time, I think I'm simply forgetting some common information or obvious step that would connect the disjoint pieces, which inclines me to rate my math skills poorly.

I barely know how to increment a number. So I'd rate myself ++0.

Quote: Original post by Konfusius
I barely know how to increment a number. So I'd rate myself ++0.

Error: cannot use constant literal as an l-value.

Hmm well I must be at least as good as Pythagoras or Newton; as for Hawkins, Einstein and Wiles though I'll accept them as my superiors [wink].

Quote: Original post by ibebrett

Quote: Original post by Naxos
I got a math minor with my cs degree. So that's 3 Calculus courses, matrix theory, discrete math, numerical analysis, and 2 statistics courses.

I made good scores in those classes at the time, but if I were to retake the finals on any of the courses today, without a doubt, I would fail them.

Right now I'm also taking a graduate level discrete math course, aimed at CS students (you can check it out here). It's kicking my butt.

So given all that, I'd have to give myself something in the range of 1 to 3.

I am a math major. No offense at all, and I really really mean it. But this is not graduate level math. This is 1st to second year introductory discrete math. I would say this level of math should be rated about 2 on the scale for reference.

Really? Ouch. I suck majorly then. Put me down for a -1.