taking real analysis as audit

[walt526]

Originally Posted by zurich_econ

I think that there is no other class in which you lose more by merely auditing it relative to actually taking it. In my view, RA can only be learned by doing, which necessarily takes up significant amounts of time. On the other hand, simply knowing the theorems and lemmas is not going to benefit you a lot at all.

Again, I'm going to agree with zurich_econ: analysis is a subject that can only be learned by "getting your hands dirty." You can read through a section of Rudin or whatever in about 10 minutes. Or cover the same material in a 50 minute lecture. But I don't think that you actually learn how to think mathematically until you slave over a proof.