Recent content by camel_jockey

So I did QFT at university and didn't feel that I really understood what was being done. We just did some calculations, heuristic guesswork and dwelled on phenomenology. I want to do it the way I personally understand things best: by learning the mathematics in detail, almost at the level of a...

Hey! Just as the title suggests I am looking for a good book on stochastic processes which isn't just praised because it is used everywhere, but because the students actually find it thorough, crystal-clear and attentive to detail. Hopefully with solved exercises and problems too! Anyone...

The US has a huge variation, the top 40 universities are excellent. Then there are maybe 40 more universities which are "OK"... but thereafter the situation decreases very, very rapidly. I would rather go to a school with poor, stressed out Indian students who work very hard and have high...

Hey guys! Which research departments are best? I was hoping to get the top 3-4 institutions names. Basically I am into mathematical string theory and geometry/topology-physics in general.

Thanks! I am checking out the PDF now and will see if I have cash for Spivaks monster book!

Well this is terrible news, I didn't know the employment-world would be so irritated with me. But I kinda see how it works now, thanks for taking your time to explain!

I am not fully surprised, but this is depressing to hear... Why do they do this? Don't most companies have a HR department which takes care of applications? May I ask if there is anything constructive I can do to start inching my way towards an interview (or headhunter) ?? Many thanks for...

Thanks for your reply! Could you list some of the companies you know of? Do you think they would be interested in someone with a good mathematical training? In what way do you mean that the application for a job of this kind of non-trivial? Do I really have to know people or something like...

I checked out the wiki article on Gödel 1 & 2... and no I didn't see any consequences for the limitations (or lack thereof) of the extent of mathematics. Where can I find it? Is it in the wikipedia article? Not arguing here, I just want to find it :)

Is this really true or just a loose extrapolation that somebody has made? I would very much like to see the link! :)

Hi guys! The other threads I saw on this didn't quite get to my area of interest, which is: How reasonable is it to apply to a company which deals with financial market analysis etc, with a bachelors in science (from a good uni), and a masters in theoretical physics (also from a good uni)...

So I gather that you mean that the circle is not an open set? How would one motivate this (intuitively I know you are correct of course) ? Does this depend on the topology you CHOOSE, and moreover, does it depend if the circle manifold is chosen to be some SUBSET of R^n ? (we assume that...

Hi! I am a very mathematically-oriented physicist. Since I never plan in making contact with "dirty" mechanics like robotics, structural problems or force diagrams, I want a book that prepares me for the mathematical/theoretical foundations of mechanics so that I can transition more smoothly to...

Thanks Lavinia - though how does one most simply see that a circle is a "fully open interval" ?

Great scott! Some fine spotting there... I recognize the theorem - isn't it in Munkres? I unfortunately don't have that book. You are probably right but I don't quite understand that the problem would be the antipodal points. Isnt the problem that the continuous function from the...