Monday, March 11, 2013

Goldfish, Tidy Households, and Math

The question is posed all the time:

What, exactly, do mathematicians do all day?

Different people give different answers, the most common being simply, "research," as though that term were enough to explicitly indicate math work. But what is research?

In his hilarious (and a little tragic) answer to this question, Yasha Berchenko-Kogen provides an accessible description of life as a graduate mathematics student and, eventually, as a mathematician.

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To discover answer and learn more about a "Tool that Does Suck Dust," check out his response here. 


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