Recent content by mathers101

@n-dimen This is a bit late but for what it's worth, MSRI sent me a rejection letter last year. So they will likely send you one eventually if you don't get in

I sent them an email and was told that they likely will have their decisions finalized around mid March.

r > 1 is again not used at all, and r < m tells you that [r] is a nonzero element of Z_m, so since [x][r] = 0, we see [x] is a zero divisor.

First off, you should note that the author doesn't mean to write $m>r$ and $s>1$. What he means is that $m>r>1$ and $m>s>1$. Now, there is nothing fancy going on here. If $d=\gcd(x,m)$, then $d$ divides both $x$ and $m$, so we can write $m=rd$ and $x=sd$ for some integers $r,s$. Now, since...

Do every exercise in Atiyah-Macdonald. Alternatively, you could look at Eisenbud's book

Munkres. Munkres. Munkres.

Don't take the ignored emails too personally; this is totally standard for academics to ignore proposals they're not interested in, rather than directly deny the student. I'm assuming from this post that you're at a somewhat highly ranked school as well. You're in an unfortunate situation...

I had a friend get accepted to Berkeley already (the one on curvature shortening flow).

First offers for Emory have been sent out.

I just got an offer from Sam Houston State. Does anybody know if it's a good program?