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| Jun 8, 2018 at 22:55 | comment | added | Oskar Limka | Do you have a quote about Feynman's attendance of seminars? | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 14:26 | comment | added | David White | In particular, because research is hard and it's also hard to discipline yourself to write things down as you go, I feel like having too many problems can distract you from what's important or from completing a project. Again, this may change as you get older, and I hope it does. For now I've learned the hard way to keep my new ideas in folders for future projects but to only work on one at a time until the preprint is done. | |
| Feb 27, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | David White | As a grad student who is close to finishing his PhD, I am probably not qualified to really discuss one's career as a research mathematician. However, at this moment I disagree with this answer. I've worked on many problems during my graduate career (partially because I earned a masters in computer science on the side) and what I found was that I could only focus and do good work on one problem at a time. Perhaps this will change over time, but especially for a young mathematician my advice would be to focus on one thing, get the degree in hand, get a job, and later on broaden your focus. | |
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 12:56 | history | edited | Liviu Nicolaescu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2013 at 10:52 | history | answered | Liviu Nicolaescu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |