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Math blogging ... and the PhD
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By overconvergent
Posted Sat May 21, 2005 at 04:19:37 PM PDT
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There are a few math and education bloggers that I read quite regularly - Moebius Stripper, a Canadian who has been teaching in British Columbia, Learning Curves, who also teaches math, Erin O'Connor, who doesn't teach math but was a professor at Penn until she left to teach at a private high school (here's an interesting post by Prof. O'Connor on mathematics), and Joanne Jacobs, who is also not a mathematician but has interesting things to say about education generally.
One of our kind Anonymous Heroes also mentioned Ars Mathematica, "Dedicated to the mathematical arts" (linking to papers, blogs, interesting proofs, etc).
The second half of this article was inspired by a comment made by Moebius Stripper about the PhD program, in this post.
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| She says
Part of my problem is that I have no interest in being a specialist. If I could cobble together a Ph.D. program that focused on connections among ostensibly unrelated fields, and that allowed me to work on distilling interesting postsecondary-level mathematics to a semi-general audience (think Martin Gardner et al), I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I was very struck by this. From conversations with PhD students in other fields, it did seem that the requirement for an original contribution to the field was more or less important depending on one's field of study. So in principle there could be such a thing in mathematics.
This issue is also mentioned in the comments to the post of Erin O'Connor's above, where reference is made to a "Doctor of Arts" degree in mathematics, which would be the non-specialist degree mentioned. |
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