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Jedi Training: What it's like to be a postgraduate mathematics research student Jon Xu University of Melbourne/Universi

Jedi Training: What it's like to be a postgraduate mathematics research student Jon Xu University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia. Prof. Arun Ram, Principal Supervisor, Unimelb. The Cast. Myself MPhil student from USyd (-> PhD). A/Prof. John Bamberg, Co-Supervisor, UWA.

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Jedi Training: What it's like to be a postgraduate mathematics research student Jon Xu University of Melbourne/Universi

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  1. Jedi Training: What it's like to be a postgraduate mathematics research student Jon Xu University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia
  2. Prof. Arun Ram, Principal Supervisor, Unimelb The Cast Myself MPhil student from USyd (-> PhD) A/Prof. John Bamberg, Co-Supervisor, UWA
  3. The Hunt
  4. Some generalized polygons The Doily The Fano Plane
  5. Meeting Arun Ram
  6. Admission and Funding
  7. 'Algebraising' Geometry René Descartes: 1596-1650
  8. Arrival at Melbourne: 1st September 2012
  9. Getting to know the mathematics community Visitor: Kevin Purbhoo From the University of Waterloo, Canada
  10. Learning to write mathematics
  11. Getting Feedback
  12. Denmark – March 2013
  13. Slowly learning finite geometry
  14. PRIMA 2013
  15. First Approximations
  16. Einstein on the Beach and Repetition
  17. Mindfulness Meditation and removing the ego
  18. What does my work involve? Using symbols to study symmetry. Why do I want to become mathematician? It's the only thing I can do well that will keep me from getting bored. But then, why should I get paid? Curiosity based research has a tendency to progress humanity (amongst other things)
  19. Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Discovers: -Calculus (along with Leibniz) -Law of gravitation -Optics Motivated by: Curiosity.
  20. More specific to mathematics: Finding the 'right' way to do things ~300 years later
  21. Euclid's 'Elements' ~300B.C. ~2000 years later
  22. Disgust The 'right' proof might look something like...
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