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High School is over and I'm finally going to University to study Physics this Fall.
In the past few years, choosing that course with the intention of concentrating more on theoretical aspects of physics has always been dead set on my mind.
However, lately as I was analysing the course page with all the subjects, semestre by semestre, I found out that during the entire undergraduate programme there was no single subject in the Physics course involving Topology, Differential Geometry or Abstract Algebra. Conversely, the undergraduate programme in Mathematics was loaded with all that stuff in the third year.
As I've done a little of research on what lies behind some topics of Theoretical Physics and occasionally frequent this forum, I am preoccupied that my undergraduate programme in Physics doesn't provide enough of that Advanced Maths (such as Group and Set Theory and other advanced Algebra and Geometry subjects) and also the Graduate Programme in Physics doesn't offer any of them either (though I am strongly determined to take my Matsers degree abroad, perhaps in the US, UK or Germany, I'll see then).
I also found out that many theoretical physicists have both math and physics degrees, so does that mean that I must have both degrees in order to be prepared to tackle topics like supersymmetry or quantum gravity? My university doesn't allow, I most certainly think, to apply to both undergraduate courses in simultaneous and even so I don't think it would be manageable as the maths programme has a lot of other subjects too.
I would appreciate you gave me some insight on this, because right now I am not sure if I should apply for maths instead, but that would mean I would have few bases in basic physics.
In the past few years, choosing that course with the intention of concentrating more on theoretical aspects of physics has always been dead set on my mind.
However, lately as I was analysing the course page with all the subjects, semestre by semestre, I found out that during the entire undergraduate programme there was no single subject in the Physics course involving Topology, Differential Geometry or Abstract Algebra. Conversely, the undergraduate programme in Mathematics was loaded with all that stuff in the third year.
As I've done a little of research on what lies behind some topics of Theoretical Physics and occasionally frequent this forum, I am preoccupied that my undergraduate programme in Physics doesn't provide enough of that Advanced Maths (such as Group and Set Theory and other advanced Algebra and Geometry subjects) and also the Graduate Programme in Physics doesn't offer any of them either (though I am strongly determined to take my Matsers degree abroad, perhaps in the US, UK or Germany, I'll see then).
I also found out that many theoretical physicists have both math and physics degrees, so does that mean that I must have both degrees in order to be prepared to tackle topics like supersymmetry or quantum gravity? My university doesn't allow, I most certainly think, to apply to both undergraduate courses in simultaneous and even so I don't think it would be manageable as the maths programme has a lot of other subjects too.
I would appreciate you gave me some insight on this, because right now I am not sure if I should apply for maths instead, but that would mean I would have few bases in basic physics.