Questions tagged [graduate-education]
For questions related to studies for graduate or more-advanced students and courses.
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Book recommendations for Math for Biochemistry Course
I am a mathematics teacher currently teaching at highschool level. I have taught at college level and I do have some preparation about topics such as differential equations and multiple integrals. ...
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Resources for designing math degree programs
I'd like to know where I can find resources which are helpful when one has to design or improve grad and undergrad degree programs in pure and applied mathematics.
In particular, I'm searching for up-...
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Are the standard of questions provided in reputed institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, etc., as good as the problems of IMO?
I did not win the International Mathematics Olympiad, so I was very curious to know the standard of questions asked in the graduate and undergraduate courses of maths and computer science in ...
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Strategies for Designing Challenging Yet Feasible Quiz Problems for Upper-Level Math Courses
In the past semester, I taught two 7-week courses: discrete math and algorithms designs (which is essentially still math) for undergraduate CS students. I implemented weekly 25-minute quizzes ...
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Where can I find new types of problems regarding graduate level mathematics?
Though not an undergraduate student , I just wanted to know where can I find hard new types of problems regarding the problems in graduate level mathematics. As per my information , standard books ...
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Summer or Semester Programs which bridge to Graduate Mathematics
A few years back I had a student attend the MASS semester at Penn State. It was a fantastic experience for my student and it certainly helped him find a place in graduate school and I would wager it ...
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What can I do when advanced undergraduate and/or early graduate STEM students cannot perform correct math manipulations?
I have helped to TA and taught several courses with mixtures of advanced undergraduate and early graduate students in engineering/STEM. These courses are the classics: signal processing, control, ...
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Books with Glossaries
I am seeking example math books that have a glossary.
I would especially be interested in an example that has a list of symbols,
a glossary, and an index.
I am working on a book (aimed at graduate ...
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If I take Modern Analysis next year, will I be prepared to teach multivariable/vector calculus?
I’m currently getting my Master’s in Math at Portland State University so that I can teach community college mathematics. I’m specifically hoping to teach calculus, statistics, and linear algebra, so ...
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Common mistakes in probability
$\DeclareMathOperator\Var{Var}\DeclareMathOperator\Bern{Bern}\DeclareMathOperator\Pois{Pois}$Question: What not-trivial mistakes do students often make when solving problems in probability theory, ...
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What are some ways that one can progress from stage 2 to stage 3 of the rigor stages that Terry Tao has described?
Terry Tao describes 3 stages of one's mathematics education on his web blog.
1: Pre-rigorous
2: Rigorous
3. Post-rigorous
I know how one can progress from stage 1 to stage 2 (this simply can be done ...
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Which books on geometry and topology are best for teaching an intro graduate course?
I'm teaching a graduate (Master's) introduction to geometry and topology (e.g. some basics on manifolds, vector bundles, algebraic topology). What textbooks have you found are best for teaching a ...
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What are some research-level opportunities in mathematics that do not focus on proofs?
The research level of mathematics (what is done by professors and upper-level graduate students) tends to be heavily portrayed as focused on writing proofs to the exclusion of most anything else math-...
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Is the Wronskian still assumed for graduate education?
About thirty years ago, in a practice GRE (Graduate Record Exam) math
test in the US,
a question assumed the student knew the definition of the Wronskian. I had never heard of this determinant
before.
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Conferences dealing w/challenges of teaching higher level math to STEM audiences
I'm interested in knowing whether there are conferences that have, among other topics, the difficulty of teaching higher level mathematical concepts to folks with prior established skills in STEM, e.g....
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