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I assume you are only interested in US universities? –If that's the case, I would look into Donu Arapura's work. He is in Purdue University: http://www.math.purdue.edu/~dvb/ But if I were you I would just look to different books/papers' authors and find in which university they are.

Which languages do you speak? –You say you are from Algeria, do you speak french? Are you open to learn other languages?

I personally preferred Bredon for his concise and elegant presentation of the subject, also he gives nice proofs without making use of spectral sequences. Hatcher is a really nice book too. For a theoretical physics approach (as for notation and usability) I'd suggest Dubrovin/Fomenko/Novikov...

I once checked that small book by Spivak but seemed too trivial after having had analysis courses. So I ended up not reading it. I would say that if you have a comprehensible understanding of analysis, you should be able to read Spivak's diff. geom. straight ahead. However, it's always good to...

I will go with marcusl, Kittel is probably the best one you could get. About the editions, I only used the 8th edition (there's also a manual solution for that edition out there in the net *cough cough*).

Lavabug, I myself am from Spain and have studied in US so I might be of some help. Having a Sobresaliente would already be considered 4.0. Forget about the so called 'Spanish GPA'. I have also seen this kind of GPA being used in Spanish scholarships (e.g. La Caixa); but it's just a national...

Is anybody here knowledgeable about the system in Parisian universities? –I have a couple (or maybe a bit more) of questions which I don't seem to get clear answers from the internet, rather mixed ones. The first one is concerning Paris 6 (UPMC) and Paris 7 (Diderot). I know they both are in...

Thanks! I'm glad that you liked it, Drizzle! :) I certainly didn't know about this thread, but it's nice that so many people post these lovely landscapes and their astrophotography work. I will be checking it often now. @Andy: brilliant composition!

Thanks Astro! And if you ever happen to be around... let me know!

Ahh...! I want to visit Mongolia now.

And here are three bonus from the 'La Vall de Núria' hike. The first one was taken from the peak of Bastiments I believe; the second portraits 'El pic de l'infern' (=Hell's peak); and the third one is just me standing in front of 'Coma de vaca'.

Sorry for the double post, but these pictures are from another trip I did (we were only two this time) two years ago in 'La Vall de Núria' (Núria's Valley). I think we did a total of 8 peaks in 2 days, not bad considering that in the first day we were mostly focused on Puigmal (about 10000...

So after the discussion in the PF chat, I'd like to share some of the pictures of my hiking trip last summer. The trip took place in the catalan pyrénées. We actually crossed the French, Catalan and Andorran border several times. I.e. we were close to 'Puigcerdà'. There's actually not a unique...

So I've talked to them, and they said that this greatly depends on which college I get in. As I've seen, Darwin college (my second option) let's their students (only graduates) effectuate the payment of tuition+college fees in July; i.e. once the master has finished. This would be a great deal...

You can certainly find some articles in arXiv aimed for bachelor students (normally, such articles are titled like 'introduction to...'). But preferably, if you want to see some 'new' research being done in the paper, it might be better to search for papers written by other undergraduates. Of...