Timeline for A second Ph.D. in mathematics?
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 13:03 | comment | added | ChoMedit | @WillSawin I apologize for too late and too ridiculous question.. Could someone change their field drastically to other field i.e. economics, mathematical biology..etc? | |
| May 29, 2018 at 0:48 | vote | accept | Zhiqiang Sun | ||
| May 28, 2018 at 23:56 | answer | added | Ethan Bolker | timeline score: 33 | |
| May 28, 2018 at 21:03 | answer | added | Igor Belegradek | timeline score: 21 | |
| May 28, 2018 at 20:58 | comment | added | Igor Khavkine | If you already see yourself changing research topics, don't wait, start going to conferences on the topic(s) that you are thinking of switching to. Ask questions and ask for advice there. Ask how your skills/interests might be of use for some open problems (even if small ones) in that topic. It might take some time, but eventually you will get to know the people working in it, and they will get to know you. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | Christian Remling | It could also be that your expectations were a bit unrealistic, and it's not so much the specific area you happen to be in now. Your description (I'm paraphrasing what you actually wrote) "lots of pedestrian papers, few brilliant ideas" describes the vast majority of the research (I'm tempted to write "research") in just about any area. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Related questions: mathoverflow.net/questions/69937/… and mathoverflow.net/questions/12684/switching-research-fields | |
| May 28, 2018 at 18:16 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| May 28, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | Liviu Nicolaescu | I call myself a geometric analyst and I have changed my research area several times after my PhD. It happened naturally: I got interested in a question and I started investigating. There are big questions that many people are chasing and there are | |
| May 28, 2018 at 17:13 | history | edited | Qfwfq | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 16:55 | history | edited | Zhiqiang Sun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 16:37 | comment | added | Fedor Petrov | It is absolutely normal to change the research topic after you get a degree (and even before that, if your thesis is essentially ready.) People know that, including the experts you are worried about. I know several examples where people got two PhD's on different subjects, but they were done in two different not completely unified academic systems (Russian/Western). | |
| May 28, 2018 at 15:47 | answer | added | Per Alexandersson | timeline score: 41 | |
| May 28, 2018 at 15:29 | comment | added | Will Sawin | Many people do change their field after getting their PhD. It depends on how quickly you think you can get up to speed on something new. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 15:28 | history | edited | Zhiqiang Sun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 15:22 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 15:19 | history | asked | Zhiqiang Sun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |