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Data Scientists & Math Grad Students

Lately, I have been having conversations with students about uneasiness in doing graduate work in mathematics. They are not necessarily anxious about the math; however, it is what they will do after. As a graduate student in mathematics, it seems … Continue reading

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Collaboration Distance

People often like calculating their Erdos number. I recently found MathSciNet’s “Collaboration Distance” tool, and had some fun looking how far away I was from some of my friends. http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/collaborationDistance.html

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Mission Counterexample!

Providing a counterexample can be the most challenging and frustrating exercise for me.  For example, one of my recent homework exercises was to give an example of a metric space where the closure of an open ball, , could differ … Continue reading

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Is there a difference between “Education” and “Learning”?

“Education” and “learning” seem to be used as synonymous in many instances. One would hear phrases such as “Higher Education institutions” for universities and “Learning Centers” for places in those institutions where people supposedly are involved in acquiring some required … Continue reading

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Stories for Mathematicians: The Mathematical Fiction Homepage

If you enjoy math, it’s a pretty fair bet that you’ve seen A Beautiful Mind, the Academy Award-winning film about the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash.  Perhaps you’ve even read Sylvia Nasar’s biography of Nash, on which the movie … Continue reading

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