Recent content by PoyDuo

I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)

Some people would consider it a hard science, some wouldn't. If you aren't sure, you could email the program-- though I would say you should probably be fine applying to such programs.

Interesting fact: At least in Texas, I know that some of the liberal arts requirements in college (government and US history) were added to help fight communism during the cold war. So it seems there is more to the gen ed requirements than just wanting to be well rounded. That being said, the...

While researching graduate schools, I did stumble across one mathematics professor who listed his interest as the mechanics of galaxy formation (or something along those lines). If only I could remember where I saw it...

That students emails... are there actually college students who write like that? That might be more disturbing then anything...

I do have the feeling that I should be doing something more directly useful fairly often. However, what I tell myself is that if I end up researching math I will also probably be teaching, and that will be the useful thing I do (I imagine most pure math people are in the same position). Or...

Just to clarify, where are you located (as in which country)? Cause there is a difference between honors in different places (some places honors involve an extra 'honors year', which is different then an honors degree in somewhere like the US, I think. In the first type it might actually be...

A lot of math programs do have 'foreign language requirements', but most are a joke-- often they give you a short math paper and a dictionary and ask you to translate it in a few hours.

I would suggest both. That being said, however, you might end up learning allot of linear algebra in a differential equations class (I know I did), so if you have to choose one...

In my personal experience (this might vary from REU to REU), it is mostly just lying low, yes, though relatively little time is spent discussing the problems... Usually, no matter how much you like it, having a break from your research at the end of the day is nice =)

I went to Greensboro. I don't know how it stands on prestige (hopefully high =) ), but I thought it was fun. Very work intensive, but worth it. That, and the program is fairly successful in terms of getting its results into publication/conferences...