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Read, yes; publish, no. I did my undergrad in math and am friends with many math master's/PhD students at UBC. I can't imagine getting a master's without read
by mikeklaas 16y ago
Read, yes; publish, no. I did my undergrad in math and am friends with many math master's/PhD students at UBC. I can't imagine getting a master's without reading a research paper. If that happens somewhere, I wouldn't think that their degrees are worth very much.
Publishing is another story. Reading current research is one thing... actually successfully advancing the state of the art in an area of pure math is quite another. (Applied math is another story altogether).
- JadeNB 16y ago> I can't imagine getting a master's without reading a research paper. If that happens somewhere, I wouldn't think that their degrees are worth very much. The University of Chicago awards ‘incidental’ master's degrees at the end of the first year of graduate study (http://catalogs.uchicago.edu/divisions/math.html http://catalogs.uchicago.edu/divisions/math.html). Although it's certainly possible to be reading current research at that point, I wasn't; and yet I think it's fair to say that U of C degrees are worth something.