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    Which languages are most useful for mathematics and physics research?

    agree with you although I'm a chinese, and I don't know why jeff prefer chinese for his second language also. for most of scientific documents are written in those languages not chiese besides english. only if you're interested in chinese history or culture, I think, you really need mandarin...
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    What Career Paths Can You Explore After a Geology Degree?

    hello, Jeff I feel it's a very interesting thing, for I'm facing exactly same condition just as you: I also graduated 4 years ago with bachelor degree and now want to study in maths & physics after working for 4 years.(similar with you, I graduated from China University of Geosciences, which...
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    Graduate M-Theory is a theory which 'combines' the five superstring theories

    Oh, mykingdomforapurpose, I just hold the same view! except I prefer the term "layer model" to your "projector model". I think every layer emerged along the time line means a new/extra dimension above the previous layer...
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    Overcoming Poor Undergraduate Performance to Pursue Math PHD

    hello, JasonJo you're right. after all, life is always hard, especially for me in the most populous country in the world. for the past three years I have been thinking the question if I'd better stay in current job along or make a big change, or how to balance them all. I once thought...
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    Overcoming Poor Undergraduate Performance to Pursue Math PHD

    hello, Student_at_CUNY thank you for your reply! yes, I was very regret not learning maths well during my college time, and sometime I ask myself if I'm really having ability to do research in maths, especially when I was slow in doing those exercises full of tricks in textbooks. but in...
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    Overcoming Poor Undergraduate Performance to Pursue Math PHD

    I'm now a programmer in a Shanghai based IT company. I have been graduated from college for 4 years and my major in college is not math or physics related. But I kept thinking my "philosophical stuff" along and recently found there's answers for me in both pure mathematics and theoretical...
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    Graduate M-Theory is a theory which 'combines' the five superstring theories

    I have a strong feeling that the current pure mathematics/theoretical physics is representing/constructing the thoughts of ancient philosophy such as Tao and YiJing, and this seems be a "philosophy-science" duality also?