Recent content by robob

Schools in Russia expect you to write a "course report", which is a lot like undergrad research. It's not unheard of for these reports to end up in journals. I don't think this creates any drawbacks at all.

probably any university. :) certainly more prestigious universities will have more motivated students that will make the professors assign more difficult homework, but you can't turn a algebra class into a plug-and-chug class.

I think at most schools you end up taking two physics classes, a lab and a math class every semester--there's just no avoiding it if you want to have all the prereqs for the next semester (e.g. quantum mechanics requires PDEs,blinear algebra and mechanics, E&M requires ODEs, etc.). It's not a...

I was wondering if someone could help me decide what sort of math graduate schools I should be applying to. The following is basically all the information I can think of that could affect my application. I am a senior at one of those big state universities, and I am hoping to graduate this...