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I think there are usually two: Calculus for scientists and engineers which is analytical and has lots of symbols, and Calculus for everyone else which is more practical.

Math majors might have their own. I also know they end up taking complex Calculus.





Thinking about it, ours was a small college -- 2500 students. So there may have been a practical reason for everybody taking the same math courses. They were taught more as "service" courses for the sciences and engineering than as theoretical math courses. And the students who didn't need calculus typically satisfied their math requirement with a statistics course.

Complex analysis and real analysis were among the higher-level courses, attended mostly by math majors, with the proviso that there were a lot of double majors. That was where it got interesting.

The requirements for the physics major were only a handful of math credits shy of the math major.


>The requirements for the physics major were only a handful of math credits shy of the math major.

lol, that's how I ended up with a math major. Got lost in the physics (realized I had no intuition for what was actually happening, just manipulating equations) took a couple extra courses, and boom! Math!


Usually engineering/math calc and then a much less rigorous business/arts&crafts calc for the rest.



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