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  2. From: ndanner@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (norman danner)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: a first year grad student freaks out.
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov12.182644.5530@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 23:26:27 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov11.223722.29808@galois.mit.edu> <BxKu9s.BAw@news.udel.edu> <1992Nov12.053255.23048@nntp.uoregon.edu>
  8. Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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  11. In article <1992Nov12.053255.23048@nntp.uoregon.edu> tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny) writes:
  12. >...Based on
  13. >a talk at a conference...
  14.  
  15. Actually, I think this is probably one of the best first places.  Go to
  16. seminars, talks, etc.  Often they are geared more towards a high-level
  17. description of a person's research, and you don't have to have been studying
  18. the topic for three years to get a feel for what is being talked about.
  19. You're likely to find something being discussed that sparks your interest.
  20.  
  21. -- 
  22. Norman Danner                    | The only difference between mathematicians
  23. The Semantic Nihilist            |  and philosophers is that mathematicians
  24. ndanner@indiana.edu              |      throw away their scratch paper.
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