Recent content by Unknot

Don't worry too much about GPA. As far as I am concerned, your extracurriculars and recommendations will probably turn out to be more important since you have good GPA. Also your SAT. But to be frank, your course selection is mediocre at best. If you believe you want to concentrate on things...

I think they have a good engineering program, so maybe they are strong in that area. I am sure you know that there is big gap between Concordia and McGill. It's hard to compare. Of course it is worthwhile to try your best at the best university you can get into.

I really doubt you can integrate it indefinitely.

(d/dx)3^x is not x3^(x-1).

My understanding is that although the admission standards are notoriously hard, as a university, factoring in research and faculty, IIT is not in the league of MIT or Caltech. People say this about Tokyo or SNU or KAIST, and these schools are very difficult to get into, but they are nowhere near...

This is an excellent idea. Sometimes they will adjust the financial aid package.

That is far more dangerous, and it's even harder for the public to spot the difference. Like how majority of Japanese believe that ABO bloodtype has something to do with one's personality after one author borrowed that idea from Nazis. It's not just urban legend, but there are many books that...

I have no idea. It apparently originated in India as far as I know, and parents in East Asia felt that it will make their children smarter. :rolleyes:

It's now a big trend in Asia to teach kids who are in somewhere like 3rd grade 1x1 through 19x19.

Um, sorry Zz, but I didn't think linking to sites *discussing* these opinions might be wrong, because it doesn't seem so different from what we are doing here. For example, on the first site you have to click a link within that site to see the proof. For the second site, there is just people...

Out of those three, no school worths $20000 more than other schools.

I don't even go that far. Unjustified leaps of logic are fine for me. To me, crackpot is someone who goes through unjustified leaps of logic to a conclusion which they just won't let go even though shown otherwise. If the person also feels that he/she has made an important discovery that...

Oh, sorry. Here's a link to his Fermat proof. [removed] About the tenured professor with P/NP claim: [removed] There's a link to a newsgroup with discussion.

Underwood Dudley has some good books (I think three of them) on math crackpots. I met few crackpots so far, and it is usually me who suffer. There are crackpots with strange logical system so that we are unable to convince them what they are saying isn't true. There are crackpots that have...

make the function e^(something). Then you can use chain rule.