Recent content by Richie

Now,the way you explained your situation, I gather that you're choosing among 3 credentials to get into the grad school program of your choice: 1. Good grades. 2. An internship. 3. A recommendation from the professor you mentioned. Of course, ideally you'd like to have all three. But...

Ha! Practically nothing. The cover is different, that's about all. And the end-of-chapter exercises are rearranged to occur in different numerical order. You can even find errors in the latest edition! I get the suspicion that publishers don't want all the errors to be corrected, because then...

If you're only doing a "project" (a presentation, I'll assume), then you need something substantial, but to-the-point. In other words, you want something that'll teach you the entire Hamiltonian/Lagrangian formulation, in a nutshell. That's usually the most efficient way to gather information...

You should still apply to schools, perhaps not Ivy League schools, but I would think most other schools will at least consider you.

Everyone has his own academic career course, but if you're planning on getting your Master's as a terminal degree, there is a lesson I learned the hard way: make sure the programs you're applying to actually exist. And I'm not joking. Two years ago, I applied to Rice University's applied...