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- From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
- Subject: Re: a first year grad student freaks out.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.191725.8265@cc.tut.fi>
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology
- References: <BxK1uD.9Bz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov11.223722.29808@galois.mit.edu> <BxKu9s.BAw@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 19:17:25 GMT
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- In article <BxKu9s.BAw@news.udel.edu> cornwall@bach.udel.edu (Ray J
- Cornwall) writes:
- >
- >For those of us who wish to do research (cause we'll get our names in
- >really cool journals! :) can you give us some pointers on how to come
- >up with such topics?
- >I've been trying to be more aggressive with my studies in math, to
- >look for such ideas, but I have a feeling I'm barking up the wrong
- >tree looking in textbooks and looking for my favorite topics here.
-
- Could it help if you just read abstracts from the journals
- and then try do the same job as far as you can.
- And maybe then check the article entirely and check
- if you were close -- things will improve greatly if
- you get small 'aha'-experiments sometimes.
-
- If you just read the texts, then you know how it is done and you
- will not bother yourself to make it differently (at least, mostly).
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- When I read something interesting I think could that work
- in the areas I'm interested in, or such; and so, I have compined
- two ideas to get third idea without pain.
- Sometimes you hit the nail.
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- Juhana Kouhia
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