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Terry Tao's General Exam: "My harmonic analysis was far from satisfactory" (princeton.edu)
3 points by mjs 50 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I remember coming across this when I was studying for similar exams in a math PhD program at another university. It helped me realize that I didn't have to know everything in order to pass. (And I didn't! And I passed.)

We also tried to have a web page like this but I didn't bother writing up my exam - after it was over I just didn't want to think about it.




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