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Posts published by “Charles Beall”

I’ve found time for my senior research! Now what?

I am quite lucky that, despite being a double major, I am finished with most of the requirements to receive undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics after this semester.

The mathematics of love

This past Tuesday marked another Valentine’s Day, an exciting but also fairly stressful holiday due to the expectations it seems to set on love and relationships.

Self-justifying hard work with breaks

This weekend, I ended up doing very little substantive work on class assignments or other tasks I had on my to-do list.

Reflecting on winter break

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.”

The app sampler, pt. II: and now I wait

This past Saturday, I hit the submit button on all my applications for Ph.D. programs in mathematics. I ended up applying to five schools, which was narrowed down from the 10 or so schools I had on the shortlist for much of the fall semester.

The tricky mathematics of ice skating

One of the difficult aspects of mathematics is that it often scales poorly with the complexity of the problem. Math is great when there are relatively few variables and nice functions (for instance, continuous and differentiable functions) involved.