Mark Fantini

Hello guys.

Hello, everyone.

Hello, @DanielFischer.

@Ted Hahaha.

@MikeMiller Isn't that the very definition of crank? :)

It's a bit hot here. Otherwise, good.

Hello, @Lord_Farin.

I hope you like it.

@evinda Good luck! :)

@evinda, nope.

Hi, @Ted! Hi, @evinda!

Hello, everyone.

Goodbye, @Ted. Great talking to you.

Unfortunately, much of studying was dissipated in heat, @Ted :(

@Ted Yeah, my undergraduate degree wasn't particularly great.

Some professors don't know the material they're teaching...I could ramble on.

Last time I checked, they placed it together with graduate measure and ring/field/Galois theory courses. Quite a fun semester, @Ted (not).

It does, @Ted, I don't disagree with the ordering. But I find that it's too much when you have 2 or 3 other graduate courses for your undergraduate semester.

There are other problems. That is a graduate course, but it is given for undergraduates with no prior exposure to any of it at the fifth or sixth semester.

At my university they try to cram too much into a single subject. The multidimensional real analysis course, for example, deals with topology in R^n, differentiation, inverse and implicit function theorems, manifolds, immersions, submersions, constant rank theorem, multiple integration, integration on manifolds and Stokes's theorem.

Good night, @studentmath.

:)

The whole project was a way for him to learn what was going on (as for me, I was lost in the way).

However, I didn't learn much through the undergraduate research because my advisor was unorganized and not so knowledgeable about the subject. He is a differential geometer, but he was unfamiliar with the method.

Yes, I have some experience. I had multidimensional real analysis as an undergraduate, classical differential geometry and tried undergraduate research on cartan's method of moving frames.

I love this sensation of getting the job done.

@Ted I'm working on learning/deepening my knowledge of Analysis, Geometry and Physics right now. Taking a gap year to do so. I just finished my bachelor in pure mathematics.

My current interests lie in Mathematical Physics and Geometric Analysis. I was hoping to make the paths cross, somehow, @Ted.

Thanks, @Ted. I find the abstractness difficult to plow through. I wish I was more able to do calculations to become more familiar. Complex geometry sounds nice, but I fear it requires too much complex analysis I'm not familiar with (yet, at least).

@TedShifrin Yeah, but most I find deal with linear connections or mention bundles in passing.

@TedShifrin Hey Ted, what are good books to learn about bundles and connections? I find Kobayashi very heavy-going and tough to learn from.

@TedShifrin Haha.

@TedShifrin Those universities train bad mathematicians, which in turn train other bad mathematicians, and so the series diverges.

Hey, @BalarkaSen.

Hello, dustin

@MikeMiller That's great. I imagine it's nice participating in a seminar. Coursework, though...my experience with coursework is awful, to say the least.

Dilbert is awesome, hahahaha.

@MikeMiller Are you enjoying your first year? How much coursework do you have?

@evinda Good night!

@MikeMiller I don't know yet what kind of stuff in Mathematical Physics. Getting to know physics as well to choose.

Trying to, at least. Changing bad eating habits is hard. Sleep is easier.

@evinda No exercise, bad eating habits, not enough sleep...

Among other things I didn't do while an undergraduate, such as taking care of my health.

:p

Taking a gap year to study physics and learn/polish mathematics.

@Clarinetist Studying for graduate school in mathematical physics.

Zombie apocalypse is now!

I just noticed I answered one of your questions.

:p

Since I just graduated, I'm an optimist lately. Everything will be okay!