@HenningMakholm the system is the following: you receive montly your salary. Plus: you can take 41 day off (8 weeks or 2 months as you wrote). Plus: two times per year you receive almost the whole salary as 8% allowance
though for the first year of course it would be just 8% of the salary you received prior to the end of year
@Jonas: my wife is working here in a private company with a boss from US. they have 20 days off so it's hard for my to spent all my 41 day
and I can use only like 7 of them to cover my travelling expenses because IKA does not allow use more.
so 14 days off, or three weeks of holidays is just my gift to uni
@HenningMakholm yes, but I can do it even without telling my supervisor
if we don't have a meeting some day, he don't care where I am. he just cares for work to be done in time
@HenningMakholm I remember that Oslo uni in Norway offered position with 400k NOK per year. that's quite a lot, about 50k EUR. Though taxes there are high. And cigarettes are extremely expensive
@tb hi ) I believe that in ETH PhD's salary is about 3.5k?
@tb apparently I've found the wrong information the first time, thanks for clarification. Since the link you provided is a Swiss law, I guess any PhD in Switzerland is paid by class 15, isn't it?
@Gortaur These are the salary classes of federal employees, so that's only applicable to ETH/EPFL. At universities it's usually a bit less. (And I find it confusing to call PhD students PhD's, by the way)
@HenningMakholm those Swedes who lived in the south used to work in Denmark because of Danish salaries and Swedish cost of live (which is less then Dutch)
@tb I'm sorry if it offended you (since you're a PhD already and though I hope that was not offencive). In informal talks here they use PhD for students and Doctor for those who finished their PhD
@tb just the last question ) and which level refers to a PostDoc, 18? that's not because I'd like to know your salary, but rather thinking about future possibilities for myself
@JonasTeuwen I wanted to ask you for a long time already: how is your last name pronounced? Would a German pronounce it more or less correctly when reading it out in German?
I was talking to some guy from TAU about writing, and I dismissed Word output and he looked a bit offended... turned out that he's extremely far from technology and does not know LaTeX, so he writes his thesis in Word.
@AsafKaragila Well, a few years ago, one guy wrote the transcript of the course "methods in mathematical physics" using word and the formula editor gadget. The entire course consists of calculations only. I don't know how he had the nerves to do that...
@tb Thank you, actually it's not a^2 .. it's written "when x approaches 1 from the right, x^2 approaches 1 from the right as well" .. I don't understand why
@JonasTeuwen There are some nicely worked out examples in that script. Those you might not know. The theory is already in your vegetative nervous system, I guess :)
Some delete votes cast. The remaining one I'm not quite sure about. It seems that the main perceived problem with the question was that it was too easy? As long as it's closed I don't think it's a net loss to let the Hahn-Banach references in the comment thread stay visible.
@HenningMakholm I voted to close and then delete because OP left the building about half a year ago and never showed any interest but having homework questions answered for her. If someone else asks this question, I'll be happy to answer.
@robjohn Reading stuff about Monty Hall on Wikipedia is fraught with danger. The article is a famous edit-war battleground and (IIRC) has been the subject of at least one arbitration committee case.
The point of contention? Whether or not the article should claim the problem can be understood without using the words "conditional probability"...
@JonasTeuwen Oh, I didn't make the connection. I haven't given it much thought, but I think that Robert Israel's answer on MO needs more explanation or is proving the wrong ratio.
consider the problem for (2sintanx - 2tansinx)/(arcsinarctan(x/2)-arctanarcsin(x/2))
where the functions have slope 2 instead of 1.
I think Robert's simple geometrical approach will give the wrong answer.
No, I developed my algorithm when I was a freshman, five years ago.
It is called "Lazy search" and it goes as that. Suppose we want to search for a value in a table of n entries, randomly choose k<n and check the k-th entry. If it contains the value return it; otherwise return "I don't know, man."
There seems to be something quite dissatisfying about questions that simply copy/paste questions from Project Euler. For example:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/9259/find-the-sum-of-all-the-multiples-of-3-or-5-below-1000
From the Project Euler website:
I solved it by using a searc...
Of course, we've all heard the colloquialism "If a bunch of monkeys pound on a typewriter, eventually one of them will write Hamlet."
I have a (not very mathematically intelligent) friend who presented it as if it were a mathematical fact. Which got me thinking... Is this really true? Of cours...
There are no innocent questions. Questions always have some hidden agenda and it is usually related to a nuclear war, murdering your parents or stealing your kidneys.
There seems to be something quite dissatisfying about questions that simply copy/paste questions from Project Euler. For example:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/9259/find-the-sum-of-all-the-multiples-of-3-or-5-below-1000
From the Project Euler website:
I solved it by using a searc...
