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I've heard stories about people who have loan debts of at least $100.000. I'm going to study mathematics in about 1 and a half years and I'm eventually planning to obtain a Ph.D. I don't know exactly how expensive this is all going to be, but with my capital and the restricted financial support...

Very useful information via that link !

Thanks for your replies, I'll definitely check those out. Especially Courant and Robbins' What is mathematics? might just be what I was looking for. Do most books include solutions? I've noticed some books/texts (sometimes) require a teacher or an already sufficient understanding to be able to...

I'm going to attend university and study mathematics in about 1 and a half years. As I want to devote myself and study the field for lifelong, I'd been thinking it wouldn't be a bad idea to start doing private study already. I'd like to ask for suggestions about what exactly would be the best to...

I do have a secondary school diploma, although its a diploma of higher general secondary education, in contrast to pre-university education. At least here in the Netherlands it is determined what 'level' you will continue studying at in the first year of secondary school. At the time I was 12...

I want to study mathematics and/or physics, at this point aiming for doing research in either a field in mathematics or/and (theoretical) physics, although I don't have the required diploma from secondary school. I live in the Netherlands and there are merely laborious, impractical ways to get...

Very well said, after all why would one panic after reading a mere post from a stranger :) Whether you were joking or not, it wouldn't matter much to me as it wasn't possible to determine whether you were or not, plus it wouldn't apply to me either way. Furthermore you have the time to distort...

I hope you aren't classifying universities by continent. Who are you replying for? In case you're American you shouldn't feel so committed to your 'group' of universities because they happen to be situated in the same country as your birthplace. I'd be happy with anyone staying on topic.

I mean I'm interested in expanding the theory of mathematics/physics, rather than applying it or whatever else. You don't have to tell me I've got a shallow view on this as I've indeed never gone to undergraduate school. Furthermore, I might just find out that I'm totally wrong when I've gone to...

I've known for years that I want to study mathematics as I have a great passion for it, but I'm not quite sure whether or not I also want to study physics. Today's (theoretical) physics thrills me more than 'today's math problems'. What I'd eventually really want to do is studying reality at its...

I see, thanks for your reply! It is however not that I automatically exclude Dutch universities, nor am I trying to say that Dutch education is so much worse than similar education in the USA/Oxbridge, I 'sort of' know about the history and current situation of the Netherlands concerning this...

As far as I know, such education is worth much more in the USA, e.g. the amount of physics/mathematics students is very thin here and someone that would become a shrub here, would become a large tree in America, e.g. because there are like a throng of mathematics professors and because much more...

I've got quite some questions of which I've been curious to find clear answers, so I hope you can help me! Especially since a few years I've been very interested in mathematics and physics and reading about these sciences, after which I've had a favour over mathematics. I'm also really...

Undergraduate education yes, I'm still in high school. So do you know a list of really good ones, specializing in theoretical physics?

As I think this would be the right place to ask, I'd like to know what's the best university on Earth that teaches (theoretical) physics and mathematics, which I both want to study, because I want to become a theoretical physicist. What would be the minimum requirements (also diplomas) to be...