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by ll931110 3145 days ago
No, it's not 18.03 (which is differential equation). Check the syllabus.

http://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Guidi-Not...

Seems that after Gian-Carlo Rota died, the class is defunct. The closet one can get is 18.175, but it still presents material from purely theoretical standpoint (e.g. no application to physics to CS).
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phereford 3145 days ago
Hmm my mistake. The blog post said Differential Equation and a classroom of 300 some students. Not many non-core classes have 300 students in them. I remember my diff eq class (18.03) being rather large (similar to 8.01, 18.01, etc etc).

While 18.03 is not core, it is a requirement for most engineering disciplines at MIT.

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jamessb 3145 days ago
The confusion is that the article refers to two different courses:

"18.30, differential equation, the largest mathematics course at MIT, with more than 300 students" [ths might be the course that is now 18.03]

"18.313, a course I teach in advanced probability theory"

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