"wounds heal, chicks dig scars, glorly lasts forever."
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine - Elvis Presley
Congrats!
Student, you studying maths to get into econ grad school?
"I cannot prove, but am prepared to affirm, that if you take care of clarity in reasoning, most good causes will take care of themselves, while some bad ones are taken care of as a matter of course." -Anthony de Jasay
So now you know what absolute continuity means? Gut.
4 real :)
Ummm you wanna be my tutor?
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The equations formulated by mathematical economics remain a useless piece of mental gymnastics and would remain so even it they were to express much more than they really do.
-- Mises,
Why is mental gymnastics useless? If nothing else, it acts as a filter for the economics profession by pushing people of lower intelligence into sociology. I'm only half-kidding, BTW.
I'm trying to get certified as an actuary but if I fail I'm going to apply for econ grad school. Those who can't do, teach. What programs are you aiming for?
So, topology next, or Lebesgue integration?
Congrats, BTW.
Congrats.
Don't worry, your wounds are about to deepen and your scars wider, trust me. The pain doesn't end.
Congratulations:) I just graduated with a 96.6% in College Algebra (took it as an elective for an easy grade) and I got a D- in calculus in my freshman year.
Congratulations.
Belated Congratulations Student. Reckon you can tackle the following now? :P
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Course-Modern-Analysis-T-Whittaker/dp/1603861211
"When the King is far the people are happy." Chinese proverb
For Alexander Zinoviev and the free market there is a shared delight:
"Where there are problems there is life."
I thought Student was in grad school? Doesn't he also have a 6 figure salary at some research institute?
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
A belated congratulations to you, Student!
I'm hoping to be able to perform as well when I start my grad classes in a few weeks.
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." -James Madison
"If government were efficient, it would cease to exist."
Congrats Student, I'm planning on taking RA soon enough, which math classes would you say are necessary prerequisites?
Any more references to heterodox calculus will be deleted on this thread,as it is off topic. Please start another thread if it interests you.
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Esuric:I thought Student was in grad school? Doesn't he also have a 6 figure salary at some research institute?
That's what I thought as well.
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Out of curiosity, what is considered advanced calculus over there?
Sieben:
I knew there was something wrong with mathematics!!!
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
If by "there" you mean the US, then this is what is meant by advanced calculus.
If anyone is curious about my background, it really hasn't changed much from when I entered the biography for my profile earlier this year.
in terms of my salary, it is far from 6 figures.
Wow, yah I hear that being getting certified to be an actuary can be hella-hard. good luck!!!
I edited my post. I don't want to say what schools I'm applying to just yet. I figure it might work like wishes, if you say them out loud they won't come true. :P
I'll just say that John List is one of my heros and he went to Wyoming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._List
lol, better than this John List:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List
I was perplexed for a second
lol that was exactly why i posted the wiki link myself. just in case someone thought i meant the more notorious John List.
Too bad that is measuring the perimeter, not Pi.
Pi is defined to be the perimeter of a circle with a diameter of 1.
>>Too bad that is measuring the perimeter, not Pi.
Its not measuring the perimeter of the circle but rather the perimeter of the square inscribed with the circle. The value of this perimeter is always 4 times the diameter of the circle. PI has nothing to do with it. In this case the diameter is 1 therefore the perimeter of the square inscribed with the circle is 4.
Mind you... here is a way to involve PI : if the the diameter was pi then the perimeter of the square inscribed with the circle is 4pi.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
The limit of this process is a "diamond" shape, not a circle.
:-P
Clayton -
That image cracks me up. Is that supposed to be serious?
No it's not serious, thus the troll-face.
This is a tad off-topic but I just wanted to point out that that image in the OP? GREATEST THING EVER.
That is all.
Student, when you become an academic economist, will you be like those who quietly commit themselves to work and research?
Or will you be one of those public educator types or public intellectual types who writes newspaper columns, holds seminars, debates famous people in public, interviews on television,.etc?
Will you be a Milton Friedman/Friedrich Hayek/Paul Krugman person who writes political treatises and comments on a broad range of issues outside his specialisation or will you be more committed to developing theory?
Will you accept or reject a Sveriges Riksbank prize if you were ever nominated for it?
Questions, questions, questions for you, an aspiring graduate student!
I disagree. I think it converges to a circle. But I have no exact calculations. What would that diamond shape be?