Jessica Karr
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I haven't seen a psychology paper explaining why some math majors/minors understand one better than the other. Both of these subjects obviously require people to invoke rules from a book. Analysis, though, felt more like trial and error while Algebra to me, so far, is all about thinking in one right direction. There's only so many ways to exhaust the possibilities of getting to the right solution in Algebra. In Analysis, people have more freedom to justify their work with different kinds of reasoning. For example to show that a function's limit exist, we could use a chain of inequalities and they could be different. In Algebra, I feel like you either know it cold or you're lost for the entire semester.