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Is this a type-up of handwritten notes, or did he type them originally?
by lonelappde 7y ago
Is this a type-up of handwritten notes, or did he type them originally?
- kaitai 7y agoThis is part of the Princeton notes on the general exams, just an effort by grad students to support each other by sharing knowledge. It's not just helpful for them -- when I did my exams, I looked up every question they posed in algebraic geometry & my minor topic area and used it as a question bank, despite not going to Princeton :) https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/ https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/
- madcaptenor 7y agoIn particular this would probably have been written up a few days after the exam - these are oral exams. I took a similar exam at a similar program. We also had a repository of exam writeups like this. But I never got around to writing mine up - there were so many things I had put off until "after orals" that the last thing I wanted to do was relive them. (Like Tao, I passed; like Tao, I muddled through large portions of my exam.)