Terry Tao public lecture (1 Viewer)

[addikaye03]

Yes, UNSW must have a fabulous teaching staff...

lol

 

[Studentleader]

From my experience, I'd say ANU has the best maths department (and I've checked out quite a few). Though clearly we're all a bit biased here...

Looking at ANU's honours units unless you want to do pure mathematics (which USyd is quite strong at) I'd rather go to UNSW.

I doubt I'll do my honours at ANU - even if I'm going to do a PhD there. UNSW appears to have quite alot more probability/statistics units.

 

[humphdogg]

Looking at ANU's honours units unless you want to do pure mathematics (which USyd is quite strong at) I'd rather go to UNSW.

I doubt I'll do my honours at ANU - even if I'm going to do a PhD there. UNSW appears to have quite alot more probability/statistics units.

Yeah, ANU is more of a research university, hence the emphasis on the pure side. Even then it's strongest at analysis, whereas USyd is only really good for Algebra. Even then I'd still rather do algebra at ANU.

Also, eww applied maths

 

[Studentleader]

Yeah, ANU is more of a research university, hence the emphasis on the pure side. Even then it's strongest at analysis, whereas USyd is only really good for Algebra. Even then I'd still rather do algebra at ANU.

Also, eww applied maths

At this stage i'm doing a triple major in mathematics (pure, applied and stats) so its not all eww applied maths (bedtime reading atm is 'A first course in Pure Mathematics'.)

I'm quite interested in what I'll get out of pure mathematics though - I hope its worth doing!

 

[buchanan]

Video of <i>Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers</i> lecture at ANU given by Terry Tao on Sept. 22, 2009:<p>
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MP4 file: <a href="http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/fora/anu_terrytao_full.mp4">http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/fora/anu_terrytao_full.mp4</a><p>

 

[tommykins]

thanks for trhat derek

 

[LordPc]

hmmm, pretty good

 

[LordPc]

I love how the first number that came to Terry's mind in the middle there was 1337

 

[Studentleader]

Video of Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers lecture at ANU given by Terry Tao on Sept. 22, 2009:
MP4 file: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/fora/anu_terrytao_full.mp4

Was quite long and boring at bits though quite a nice insight - too bad it wasn't aimed more at the mathematical minded and it really didn't give a full idea of how important prime numbers are in cryptology.

 

[tommykins]

yeah beacuse he can fit all that within 40-45 minute lecture.