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Making subtle points
This year, as part of my duties, I am a College Fellow for the undergraduate Algebra (Hons) sequence at the University of Chicago. I conduct a weekly problem session for the students, which serves as … more →
What Is Research?
Making subtle points
vipulnaik wrote 8 months ago: This year, as part of my duties, I am a College Fellow for the undergraduate Algebra (Hons) sequence … more →
Doing it oneself versus spoonfeeding
vipulnaik wrote 9 months ago: In previous posts titled knowledge matters and intuition in research, I argued that building good in … more →
Knowledge matters
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vipulnaik wrote 9 months ago: It is fashionable in certain circles to argue that, particularly, for subjects such as mathematics t … more →
On new modes of mathematical collaboration
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vipulnaik wrote 10 months ago: (This blog post builds upon some of the observations I made in an earlier blog post on Google, Wikip … more →
Can the Internet destroy the University?
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vipulnaik wrote 10 months ago: Every so often, we hear talk about how computers and the Internet are “changing everything … more →
The mind's eye
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vipulnaik wrote 1 year ago: Recently, when talking to an Olympiad aspirant Ashwath Rabindranath about how to prepare effectively … more →
The dissemination of science
vipulnaik wrote 1 year ago: This is a somewhat unusual post for this blog. I typically use the What is Research? blog to describ … more →
Tryst with functional analysis
vipulnaik wrote 1 year ago: It’s the end of the ninth of the eleven-week winter quarter, and the next two weeks are probab … more →
Quarterly progress
vipulnaik wrote 1 year ago: When I started life this quarter, I had determined that it would be more enjoyable than last quarter … more →
Wikis --logic and magic
vipulnaik wrote 1 year ago: Before I had set out for the University of Chicago to pursue doctoral studies, one of my favourite i … more →
Think structures, not numbers
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vipulnaik wrote 2 years ago: Recently, while I was preparing for and delivering a talk on The story of the symmetric group, I cam … more →
The matter of scalability
vipulnaik wrote 2 years ago: Recently, I was looking at the various costs involved in different research activities. I was thinki … more →
Wikis 2
vipulnaik wrote 2 years ago: It’s been over a month since I put my last post on wikis, and at that time, I had just started … more →
Reading research papers
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vipulnaik wrote 3 years ago: From what I’ve gathered through talking to people on their way to a Ph.D., there’s quite … more →
A breakthrough
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vipulnaik wrote 3 years ago: “And then he saw her. Those hours of waiting under the moonlight, that pacing up and down, tho … more →
