How much math is involved in advanced astonomy, physics and astrophysics?

My Science average has always been 100 but my math has always been in the high 80s low 90s, i am looking to pursue a career in astrophysics and astronomy, how hard will the math get. will my struggle in math possibly prevent me from getting a career in science? What math do you think is primarily used in astrophysics? Thanks!|||You'll use a lot of math. You'll need about three semesters of college calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and a lot of 'math for physicists'. But high 80/low 90 is fine. As long as you can get B's in your math classes (and A's in everything else) you can get into grad school for astrophysics.|||Personally I am an astrophysicist in college right now learning the exact math you're talking about. Not to sound discouraging, but the math is everything. If you can't do the math, you can't do the physics. You'll need several years of calculus, learning integration, vector calculus, things like stokes theorem, divergences and curls, the calculus of variations, then theres linear algebra, differential equations, learning how to solve partial differential equations, find eigenvalues and eigenfunctions and I would call all of that the basic math you'll need and learn in the first two years before you can start the real stuff. From there you'll need and learn things like differential geometry to learn things about the general theory of relativity, operators and wave function solutions to schroedingers equations to understand particles, integrating imaginary functions with complex analysis, fourier and laplace analysis, spherical harmonics and all of that good stuff.





I've seen countless people struggle and fail because they couldn't handle the math involved and it will only ever get harder. But if you have a true love for astronomy and are good at math I'd say go for it. Grades don't matter in this, its how you understand it.





Hope that helps.|||Well since a majority of what goes on in outer space can't be directly observed, scientists rely on math to prove things and figure stuff out. You're going to need a lot of math in pretty much any scientific career.