Timeline for How do you select an interesting and reasonable problem for a student?
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| Dec 11, 2022 at 8:12 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
Removing the tag (thesis) - as suggested by the moderators: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10243/conversation/the-tag-thesis and https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/10243/conversation/removal-of-thesis
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 14:36 | answer | added | Per Alexandersson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 14:19 | history | edited | Todd Trimble |
added a tag
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 11:08 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Long ago when I was a graduate student in math at Harvard, one of my classmates asked Professor Lynn Loomis to suggest such a problem for him. Professor Loomis replied, "If I knew a problem like that, I would work on it myself." | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 7:26 | history | edited | Ali Taghavi |
I add a tag.
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| Dec 8, 2015 at 15:41 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Apr 30, 2010 at 2:07 | vote | accept | Gordon Royle | ||
| Apr 28, 2010 at 13:50 | comment | added | Mark Meckes | Not a useful answer, but a family recollection I like: my wife's grandfather (who was a mathematician) reportedly said that a good master's project was one he could solve in an afternoon, and a good PhD project was one for which he could come up with several good approaches in a week. | |
| Apr 28, 2010 at 13:05 | answer | added | Daniel Larsson | timeline score: 20 | |
| Apr 28, 2010 at 12:39 | answer | added | Kevin Buzzard | timeline score: 36 | |
| Apr 28, 2010 at 12:37 | answer | added | Joel David Hamkins | timeline score: 60 | |
| Apr 28, 2010 at 12:00 | history | asked | Gordon Royle | CC BY-SA 2.5 |