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Both of you, thanks again for the input, it is much appreciated. To Hossam: Actually I single authored one of the papers. However, the good news is that it was recently accepted for publication at the journal I submitted. While the journal is not very prestigious,(from what I've heard), at...

Hi HossamCFD, I appreciate your input, and thanks for encouraging me to apply to some more top schools. Just to clarify though, I have two papers under review for publication, but they are not published yet (I strongly believe they will, but this might as well make a difference). Thanks again!

I am afraid my GRE scores will hurt my application. How much are GRE scores weighted compared to say research experience, GPA, and letters of recommendation?

I do not have much to add, other than the fact that not too long ago (about 3-4 years) I was in a similar position as yourself. During high school I was mislead (mainly by my math professors) to think of myself as a person with high talent in mathematics. So, at that time I always pictured...

Thanks for your reply! Anyone else care to give their opinion?

Hi all, I am currently applying to a few PhD programs in mathematics, and I was wondering what your opinion is regarding my chances of being admitted to any of these schools? Below is a very brief description of my background: Institution: Small, not known for math GPA: Overall: 3.94, Math...

@tachyon4: I hope you don't mind me for chiming in. I am interested in this topic as well. How would the graduate admission committee view someone's application which shows that the applicant has clearly quite some research experience like participated in REU's, summer research with a professor...

I don't see any questions asked here?

Do you know how integration by substitution is done? If not, look it up in your book. Try a u-substitution. That is let u=4+t^2. Where do you go from here?

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How difficult in your opinion is to get in UT, Austin in pure math, graduate school, compared to say Ivy league schools? I know this is a very broad question, but i guess what i am looking for is the profile of a typical student who is accepted into the math graduate program at UT, Austin?

Is there a site like this for Math?

Not to turn this into an argument, but abstract algebra, especially Group and Ring Theory, is extremely useful, especially when you are doing Algebraic Topology: that is the Fundamental Group of a space, and also the Homology Group of a space etc. serve extremely well in describing the space.

I would say define a helping function g as follows: g(x)=f(x)-log(x), then g'(x)=0 so g is constant. So f(x)-log(x)=K. Now you can determine K from previous parts. Does this help? This is a nice problem by the way, I remember doing it through a different approach some time ago.

Well, the short term goal is to be able to understand the theory about Gaussian integers. However on the long run, it seemed like an interesting field for research too. So, I am in the lookout for a topic for my senior research thesis/project (which will be this fall), and Gaussian integers...