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The AMS invites applications for staff writers of the Graduate Student Blog

Posted on August 15, 2019 by jphothisarath

The AMS invites applications for staff writers of the Graduate Student Blog, a blog by and for graduate students in mathematics, beginning in the fall 2019 semester. Staff writers share their experiences and challenges as graduate students, solicit posts, and … Continue reading →

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How to Divide by Zero: An Interview with Bill Shillito

Posted on November 26, 2018 by James Sheldon

For this post, I interviewed a colleague about a new project he is working on: a website where he encourages his readers to consider the possibility of dividing by zero.  Bill Shillito has a Master’s degree in Secondary Mathematics Education … Continue reading →

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Teaching Lessons from a Summer of Taking Mathematics Courses

Posted on September 7, 2018 by James Sheldon

Although I am a mathematics education graduate student and am not required to take mathematics courses as a part of my PhD, I had the opportunity to take several mathematics graduate courses this summer as part of a Mathematics Graduate … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Ideal Class Groups

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Tom Gannon

Algebraic number theory is a really interesting subject, but unlike some other subjects, it’s not 100% clear what objects people study. This post provides an introduction to the class group of a finite dimensional field extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, an object often … Continue reading →

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What is a Manifold? (6/6)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Behnam Esmayli

In posts 1-3 we were able to reduce all of the geometry of a curve in 3-space to an interval along with two or three real-valued functions. We also discussed when two sets of such data give equivalent (overlapping) curves. This … Continue reading →

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