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- From: cornwall@bach.udel.edu (Ray J Cornwall)
- Subject: Re: a first year grad student freaks out.
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- John C. Baez writes:
- >That's why I'm glad that starting in high school I started trying to
- >come up with math topics to do research on. One has to face the unknown
- >eventually if one is going to do research, so one might as well get used
- >to it as early as possible (even if ones first research projects are a
- >little silly).
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- 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.
- Where are some good sources of information, and what are some good
- questions to ask myself?
- (I know, Bad English on the last part...sorry...)
- Ray Cornwall
- University of Delawhere
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