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This tag is for questions requesting advice (e.g. on a suitable publishing venue, presentation strategy, career move, ethical dilemma). It should be used in conjunction with a more specific tag, such as [journals], [teaching], [career], or [ethics].
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Publishing undergraduate research
I'm adding this answer in response to Annie Lee's question, because it's too long to fit in a comment.
Publishing as a grad student should definitely be done in consultation with an advisor. Unlike pu …
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Is it possible to jump ship to mathematics?
Certainly it is possible to "jump ship" and, as the comments have already pointed out, a few years in a physics PhD program (where you published math papers) will not damage your credibility. In fact, …
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Publishing undergraduate research
There are many undergraduate journals that would not be likely to reject your work as "not profound enough." Basically, if it's written while the author was an undergraduate, and contains anything nov …
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How do I, as an undergraduate, find interesting, accessible questions to work on to see if I...
Welcome to MathOverflow! I am a professor at a liberal arts college. The best place to start is by talking to your favorite math professor, or your advisor in the department. The graph theory course w …
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Is it possible to get into graduate school for math with a non-math undergraduate degree?
But plenty of students change their major, and the general advice to undergrads in the USA (especially at a liberal arts college) is to follow their passion. …
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What kind of work experience should be included in a math CV for PhD programs?
A professor who has can give very useful advice to students. …
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Applying Phd directly after undergraduate
These sorts of questions are really best asked of a trusted advisor, who knows your skill level, life goals, etc. That said, I think Zhen Lin gives a great answer in the comments, that you should do 4 …
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Pros and cons of specializing in an esoteric research area
I think it really depends on your goals. The OP says he's thinking about which grad school to attend. If you're goal is to get a higher degree and then a job in industry, you would be well-advised to …
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A starting point for research in Graph Theory as a high schooler
In addition to Sam Nead's answer, which is about how to get started in math research, I want to direct the OP's attention to many lists of open problems in graph theory. For someone with a background …
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Math graduate school applications and personal hardships
Here is some general advice about grad school applications, from Swarthmore. … The advice from Swarthmore is backed up by web pages of various PhD programs, e.g., this one from UMD, previous MO questions, MSE questions, and advice on academia.SE. …
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Is it appropriate to add a dedication to a paper?
In math, dedications are rare but not unheard of. They are most common in birthday conference proceedings, or special issues devoted to summarizing a person's life work. For example, consider the foll …
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What to do after a pure math academic path?
I am sorry that the OP feels "desperate and sad." I agree with the comments suggesting that happiness in life is very different from achieving some specific career. I also think a lot has to do with m …
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Question on academic affiliation when submitting a paper
Similar advice can be found in fedja's answer on academia.SE. …
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Beginner's questions on the post-doc application
This was advice for tenure track liberal arts jobs. I think the advice was meant to warn me off from asking random big-shots to write letters for me even if they don't know me very well. …
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Advice for PhD Supervisors
Here is a list of resources:
Section 2B of Indiana University's How to be a Good Grad Student is Advice for Advisors. … Advice to a young mathematician by Atiyah, Bollobas, Connes, McDuff and Sarnak. …