Category Archives: General

NSF Graduate Fellowship Applications due November 4

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Frank Morgan

Every beginning math graduate student and senior considering math graduate school should apply for an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Applications are due by November 4. Also see the column on Fellowships below.

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An Interview with Terence Tao

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr Fields medalist Terence Tao is undoubtedly a very successful mathematician. He works primarily in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, compressed sensing and algebraic combinatorics. I interviewed him over email to … Continue reading →

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D.I.Y. Unorientable Math Gifts

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Brie Finegold

By Brie Finegold Baby Felix Klein’s family probably didn’t give him lots of useless presents around the holidays, and he turned out okay (aka brilliant mathematician/physicist). All of  the Holiday Sales are already starting, trying to entice all of us poor … Continue reading →

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To post or not to post, this is for questions

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Brian Katz

by Brian Katz A lot of the content on this blog is posted when a member of the editorial staff has an idea or remembers a gem of wisdom. If you post a question as a response to this thread, … Continue reading →

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“Vacation”

Posted on August 22, 2009 by admin

A recent comic on phdcomics.com contains the following fictitious dialogue between Tajel, a grad student, and her advisor…

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