Category Archives: General

Random Sample = All ?

In some situations, one person might desire to know something about some other people, whether it be the amount of money they make, the number of books they have read, the percentage of them who buy a certain product, or … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Leibniz

Today is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s 366th birthday. Thanks to him for his mathematical contributions. How has Leibniz impacted your life? When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into … Continue reading

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Travel Grants for Graduate Students

The American Mathematical Society, with support from a private gift, is now accepting applications for travel grants to provide partial support to graduate students in order to attend one of the Fall 2012 AMS Sectional Meetings. All full time graduate students in the … Continue reading

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What’s in a name?

There are phrases that one very often sees and may fall in the habit of using without necessarily spending some time to question them. I am sure to try to do that for all words we use would be unbearable … Continue reading

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Exam Studying

The vast majority of my summer will be spent studying for my qualifying exams in analysis and algebra. The point of this post is to essentially beg for any advice that those of you who have passed have in studying … Continue reading

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