The Qualifying Exam I Passed

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025

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  • @noalsono393
    @noalsono393 Год назад +151

    Congratulations man! Great to see this perspective of the process

  • @toneal30
    @toneal30 Год назад +351

    So essentially, you have some balls, you pick some of them, the balls grow to 3 times their size, and the balls create a family.

  • @courtcat339
    @courtcat339 Год назад +58

    I believe the last math class I took was a statistics class in freshman year of undergrad… I definitely do not understand a thing about this test or any of these problems, but your passion for the subject keeps me watching! It comes out in how you speak about it - you love this stuff. Good for you, man.

  • @christophernieves1328
    @christophernieves1328 Год назад +23

    This is amazing, I’m currently in my Civil Engineering curriculum taking courses such as CE Statics and Mechanics of Deformable Bodies. I only took math through calc 3, and then differential equations and linear algebra.
    Just watching your videos is insane to me, and I can tell you put so much time into studying and broadening your intelligence towards these topics , congrats! I can’t ever imagine learning what you’re learning!

    • @mr.sloppytaco69
      @mr.sloppytaco69 Год назад

      Yo CE gang

    • @BadAss_691
      @BadAss_691 11 месяцев назад +1

      All engineering is maths so you're no less , don't underestimate yourself.

    • @mrhatman675
      @mrhatman675 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@BadAss_691Lol just no

    • @andyiswonderful
      @andyiswonderful Месяц назад +1

      I took linear algebra through the math department rather than through the engineering school. The "pure math" approach was very satisfying to me, and helped me a lot later on. Ironically, the pure math professors had a bad time answering questions about how the topic informed students on practical applications. Anyway, I struggled through linear algebra and got an A, and I remember it fondly. Isn't that weird?

    • @claypierce6967
      @claypierce6967 9 дней назад

      @@andyiswonderfulwould you recommend taking it through the math if possible? This is a question for me to use in 5 years lol I’m only a junior I’m high school now but want to do engineering

  • @akeccunkaq
    @akeccunkaq Год назад +5

    For 3, I would take compact neighborhoods (closed balls) of all the rational points in U, their union is U. The image of each compact is compact, and then f(U) is a countable union of compact sets so it is a Borel set.

  • @andyiswonderful
    @andyiswonderful Месяц назад +2

    Congratulations!! It is a significant milestone to pass one's qualifying exams. I passed my exams in chemical engineering and got my PhD 3 years later. Only about 1/3rd of the students taking the exam passed, so I did feel fortunate.
    One thing that I appreciated about my department (University of Pennsylvania) is that they did not make the exams excruciating. By the time a student is at that stage of their education, they have been tested and tested and tested over and over again. It seems a bit disrespectful to me that we had to get tested once again, to be accepted into the PhD program. I mean, we were all valedictorians of our undergraduate schools, and had already aced standardized tests to be accepted into graduate school. Anyway, although it is a nerve wracking experience (I think I got about 2 hours of sleep the night before.), my department at Penn really did a lot to defuse the tension.
    In retrospect, I think that the real purpose of the exam was to provide an excuse to deny some of the students the ability to proceed in the program. The professors sized the group up, and decided which students they wanted to keep ahead of the exam.
    I remember one student from China "failed" the test. He said that he knew he actually did very well on it, so was dismayed when he was rejected. He had very poor English communication skills, and committed the cardinal sin of taking a second job wile being a student. I think it was for these reasons that the department let him go. But, he moved on to MIT, and did fine.

  • @minzreis4522
    @minzreis4522 Год назад +9

    Thank you for sharing your experiences and congrats on passing! I'm starting my maths major next month so your channel reminds me to work hard and do my best 👍

  • @InoceramusGigas
    @InoceramusGigas Год назад +11

    Hey man... Congratulations... Not many people in your life will understand what a great achievement this is, but trust that we in the comments acknowledge the significance of such an accomplishment! All the best,

    • @jamesromano3288
      @jamesromano3288 Год назад +1

      At the end of the week he will be broke AF..papi.....

    • @InoceramusGigas
      @InoceramusGigas Год назад

      @@jamesromano3288 you clrarlh don't know anything about job opportunities for math PhDs, cope + brainlet

    • @miraculous4104
      @miraculous4104 Год назад

      However he will be broke with a Phd while you will be broke without an education @@jamesromano3288

    • @AadharSharma-yx7fr
      @AadharSharma-yx7fr 3 месяца назад

      @@jamesromano3288tf

  • @Djentstructer
    @Djentstructer Год назад +8

    I dig the whiteboard that's been in these past few vids!

  • @cui348
    @cui348 Год назад +3

    Thankfully, I only have to go as far as Calculus 3 for my major, but I am extremely proud of your success and passion for math.

  • @0Clappy
    @0Clappy Год назад +20

    Congratulations on passing the exam. Would you mind throwing a video together really quick for number 5 on the real analysis?

    • @lugia8888
      @lugia8888 Год назад +2

      bn is bounded on that interval so since an converges you can use ratio test

  • @ExtinctTrain671
    @ExtinctTrain671 Месяц назад

    The fact you kept thinking about the problems makes you a mathematician in my eyes. Only a pure lover of Math would go back and keep thinking about the problems. I definitely do not do this often enough and end up getting a partially right answer most of the time. My proofs are just not the best, but I'm still learning. I hope to get to get to grad school one day, but I'm not feeling so confident because I tend not to retain math over time very well.

  • @kobemop
    @kobemop Год назад +6

    Congratz my man. I feel kind of curious of wanting to try those questions myself lol.

  • @СергейАндреев-о6ж
    @СергейАндреев-о6ж Год назад +3

    Congratulations! Keep going

  • @robertschumann6977
    @robertschumann6977 Год назад +8

    For 2. b): Assuming that a_k -> 0 (otherwise just set f_k = a_k) a typewriter-like sequence should do it, i.e. in the first iteration pick some n s.t. sum_{k = 1}^{n} a_k >= 1 and set f_1 = 1_[0, a_1], f_2 = [a_1, a_1 + a_2], ..., f_n = 1_[...] * 1_[0, 1]. Continue in this fashion so that f_k(x) fails to converge for any x. Just like a typewriter, the indicator function wanders from left to right along the interval over and over again.

    • @AshKetchumAllNow
      @AshKetchumAllNow Год назад

      I don't agree with what you wrote but I think you have the correct idea. Let S_1 be the first time the partial sum is greater than 1 (so it is for the n you found). Then, the trick you did works until then: define f_1 = 1_[0,a_1], and f_k = 1_[summation until k_1, summation until k] (so that the interval length is a_k). For f_n, we can do the same thing, and notice that since summation k=1 to n goes outside [0,1], the interval is smaller than a_n, so the integral still holds. For f_(n+1), we should continue as before, but make sure to subtract S_1 (to map back into [0,1]. Eventually, we will go above 1 again, and have to subtract S_2, etc. There's no need to multiply by 1_[0,1] since the f_ks are defined only for that interval anyway.

    • @AshKetchumAllNow
      @AshKetchumAllNow Год назад

      I think there should be a cleaner way to do this

  • @Gaurav-um4oh
    @Gaurav-um4oh Год назад +4

    Congratulations, man!❤

  • @TranquilSeaOfMath
    @TranquilSeaOfMath Год назад +2

    Congratulations and best wishes. Fun analysis comic.

  • @Kolee-k2i
    @Kolee-k2i Год назад +5

    Congrats

  • @OscarRamirez-jv2hj
    @OscarRamirez-jv2hj Год назад +3

    Congratulations!!!

  • @williamangelogonzales148
    @williamangelogonzales148 Год назад +7

    Loved these videos even though I don't understand the problems😅

  • @RedionXhepa
    @RedionXhepa Год назад

    Congrats, I came to check this thing after I saw your first video.

  • @KingOfSwedenIII
    @KingOfSwedenIII Год назад +11

    I have zero interest in pursuing a PHD in math but I like this guy so I’m subscribing 🤣

  • @briangronberg6507
    @briangronberg6507 Год назад +1

    Congratulations!

  • @troybird8253
    @troybird8253 Год назад

    You should input your information into an a.i. Prompt and charge for the file used in a compiler.

  • @researchchannel1767
    @researchchannel1767 Год назад +1

    🎉Congrats🎉

  • @Scriabin_fan
    @Scriabin_fan 9 месяцев назад +1

    I laughed every time he said balls.

  • @joelfalco8735
    @joelfalco8735 Год назад +5

    Every time the teacher said Balls in class, my whole friend group would start laughing. You wouldn't think we're math students lol

    • @joelfalco8735
      @joelfalco8735 Год назад +1

      @@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar we're respectful and get good grades. having a little fun doesn't hurt anyone

    • @MyOneFiftiethOfADollar
      @MyOneFiftiethOfADollar Год назад

      @@joelfalco8735 when you laugh at such crass humor as a reference to testicles, you are asserting your entertainment is more important than interrupting class.
      Save those type of jokes for your weekly circle jerks with your friend group clowns.
      Cheating is so widespread these days that reporting good grades is not particularly noteworthy.

    • @Dark_Souls_3
      @Dark_Souls_3 Год назад

      @@MyOneFiftiethOfADollarno

    • @orang1921
      @orang1921 Год назад

      @@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar you're weird, man

  • @priyanegi2102
    @priyanegi2102 Год назад

    Congratulations. I just came across your channel. I am a freshman in math major in an undergrad.

  • @HS-vn9rt
    @HS-vn9rt Год назад

    Congratulations !!

  • @agni961
    @agni961 Год назад +9

    For no.5 I used the Abel summation formula and then show the cauchy condition is true(by suitable bounding)....I think it works can someone verify?

    • @kelvinhoria5127
      @kelvinhoria5127 Год назад +2

      yes. I think the key idea is to use Abel summation formula.

    • @robertschumann6977
      @robertschumann6977 Год назад +3

      Yup, I got the same. I assume you meant using the integral test to show that `sum n^{-1.5}` converges (we need that sum |1/b_k - 1/b_{k + 1}| converges)

    • @agni961
      @agni961 Год назад

      ​@@robertschumann6977 I rechecked my work..my bound for |1/b_k+1 - 1/b_k| was ugly...sum of 1/n^1.5 works fine.

  • @etonalexandria341
    @etonalexandria341 Год назад +3

    congrats

  • @vqsilly
    @vqsilly Год назад +5

    this guy is the sam sulek of maths

    • @nilo034
      @nilo034 Год назад +3

      Lmaooo what a comparison

  • @paulcatterson1732
    @paulcatterson1732 Год назад +11

    congratulations! I've really enjoyed the videos you have been posting but I'm wondering what it is you want to do after you PhD, or have you not thought that far down the line.

    • @jamesromano3288
      @jamesromano3288 Год назад +1

      He will be working at Home Depot, papi.

    • @orang1921
      @orang1921 Год назад

      @@jamesromano3288 why are you commenting so much about this guy going broke? why a random math phd student of all people? you're weird, man.

  • @JokerTropical
    @JokerTropical Год назад

    Congrats!!

  • @Youssef-Abotaleb
    @Youssef-Abotaleb Год назад +8

    What do you want to work after finishing your studies , like afyer your PhD and after you have evry certificate you want which field are you going to work in ?

    • @neerajnongmaithem392
      @neerajnongmaithem392 Год назад +3

      By the sound of it, I think he might continue to be academics as prof and continue with his post doc research

  • @Itzak15
    @Itzak15 Год назад +6

    For me it's shocking that this is not a take-home exam. Everything we do is take-home because that is how you do it in research

  • @bunnyben5607
    @bunnyben5607 Месяц назад

    Interesting, I personally found 5 to be the easiest of the real analysis questions. I solved it in a couple minutes, while the other ones seem harder, particularly 1.

  • @dorukme
    @dorukme Год назад

    Congratz man!

  • @loc_real
    @loc_real Год назад +1

    lets go congrats man

  • @bobbyking2490
    @bobbyking2490 Год назад

    Well done!

  • @captainchicky3744
    @captainchicky3744 Год назад

    Congrats!

  • @mikakee5154
    @mikakee5154 Год назад +1

    holy shit, congrats

  • @sev-ofc2
    @sev-ofc2 Год назад

    HUGE CONGRATS

  • @zhangkevin6748
    @zhangkevin6748 Год назад

    great job man, nice.

  • @_mario_2985
    @_mario_2985 Год назад +5

    How much time did you get for these 5 questions in real analysis? Over 7 hours seems too much for me...

  • @dinglerdangler
    @dinglerdangler Год назад +11

    balls 1:23 , 1:26, 1:28, 1:38, 1:44, 1:52 , 1:55

    • @joelwillis2043
      @joelwillis2043 Год назад +1

      standard for analysis but whatever

    • @dinglerdangler
      @dinglerdangler Год назад

      you think people who enjoy the simple pleasures of "balls" don't know analysis? how very assumptionous of you willy

    • @aleksandrb4635
      @aleksandrb4635 Год назад +2

      the *union* of the balls

    • @Devesteter252101
      @Devesteter252101 Год назад

      @@joelwillis2043 pee balls

  • @thiagolima4054
    @thiagolima4054 Месяц назад

    Does anyone have the solution to question 4 from real analysis?

  • @Qq-lp5xg
    @Qq-lp5xg Год назад +2

    fucking love your videos

  • @jamesromano3288
    @jamesromano3288 Год назад +1

    If I want to learn calculus,,,,,is all that trig stuff really needed, papi ?

    • @tiwariabhinay868
      @tiwariabhinay868 Год назад +1

      Yeah it's building block, trig with you mean trigonometry na?

  • @researchchannel1767
    @researchchannel1767 Год назад

    Hey man any tips or advice how can i get into a IMO team and also how to learn Combinatorics, Geometry, Algebra and Number Theory fast lol like any website that is challenging and yeah worth it

  • @KeesKlaas-t2t
    @KeesKlaas-t2t Год назад +5

    Hey, im a second years math student (bachelor). Taking (real) analysis 2 rn and I feel overwhelmed by the proofs, do you have tips on how to study it? Also, would you be interested in reviewing my university's syllabus? They write the theory themselves and I feel like their expectations are a bit high for second years students.

    • @MyOneFiftiethOfADollar
      @MyOneFiftiethOfADollar Год назад +2

      switch majors

    • @KeesKlaas-t2t
      @KeesKlaas-t2t Год назад

      @@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar yeah im thinking of quitting math and cs and pursue a econometrics degree

    • @bennoarchimboldi6245
      @bennoarchimboldi6245 Год назад

      Where do you go to college?

    • @KeesKlaas-t2t
      @KeesKlaas-t2t Год назад

      @@bennoarchimboldi6245 Radboud University, the Netherlands

    • @jayloncarter7030
      @jayloncarter7030 9 месяцев назад

      Did you switch majors yet? If you made it this far to real analysis 2 then i’d say just stick with it. Re read and re do proofs over and over and over again.

  • @bobbypesch5220
    @bobbypesch5220 Год назад

    where do you go to school?

  • @LangmuirProber
    @LangmuirProber 6 месяцев назад

    Is the term "complex analysis" interchangeable with "complex variables" in a similar way to the interchangeability of "advanced calculus" and "real analysis"?

    • @PhDVlog777
      @PhDVlog777  6 месяцев назад +2

      From my understanding, they are. But each institution has their own name for the course. They may call complex variables the undergrad version and the grad version complex analysis.

    • @LangmuirProber
      @LangmuirProber 6 месяцев назад

      @@PhDVlog777 Thank you!

  • @anshsehgal7043
    @anshsehgal7043 Год назад +2

    I'm soo early that the vid isn't even loading lmaoo😅

  • @ethanbartiromo2888
    @ethanbartiromo2888 Год назад

    g(x) = f(x) + f(-x) is an even function if that matters?

  • @Cyclically
    @Cyclically Год назад

    Interesting

  • @robertgerbicz
    @robertgerbicz Год назад +3

    The fifth problem is quite trivial, without any integration:
    From convergence you have that for eps>0 there is N for that if n,p>N then |S(n,p)|

    • @uva1312
      @uva1312 Год назад +17

      worst math student is the one who uses trivial and trivially

    • @josephquinto5812
      @josephquinto5812 Год назад +3

      “quite trivial” 🤓

  • @pak-keungdannychan3082
    @pak-keungdannychan3082 Год назад

    For Q.3, it seems that we may try in this direction:
    Let $\{K_n \mid n\in\mathbb{N} \}$ be a countable collection of compact sets
    such that K_n \subseteq U and U = union of these compact sets.
    Then f(U) = \cup_n f(K_n), which is a F_\sigma set and hence it is Borel.
    I have not worked out the details for the construction of {K_n}.
    If the domain of $f$ is R, this is easy...

  • @Blahcub
    @Blahcub Год назад

    New to this channel. What are you studying for? Academia or what job prospects are you using this math for?

  • @bedasrutiray1850
    @bedasrutiray1850 Год назад

    Can you suggest me a good analysis book for problem. Solving?

    • @soyoltoi
      @soyoltoi 9 месяцев назад

      Pugh - Real Mathematical Analysis

  • @galaxy5201
    @galaxy5201 6 месяцев назад

    Hi there....are these concepts and theorems covered/proved in your class ???

    • @PhDVlog777
      @PhDVlog777  6 месяцев назад

      All the theorems and tools used in these problems were developed in the analysis course.

  • @CanIMath
    @CanIMath Год назад

    Go Golden Flash!

  • @oo_rf_oo8824
    @oo_rf_oo8824 Год назад +4

    Is it that I'm delirium or 3 is probably the most easy one in the test?

  • @kirkpetersjr
    @kirkpetersjr Год назад

    I'm taking math grad RA right now, and these questions seem decent. I was surprised to hear you say hour seven. 😅

  • @최정현-q4x
    @최정현-q4x Месяц назад

    Dude hour 7???????

  • @aryansaxena4978
    @aryansaxena4978 Год назад

    I tried to solve the third question for the case when n=m=1. If f is a real valued continuous fn. on R, prove that f(U) is Borel. Since U is an open set, we can write it as a countable union of disjoint open intervals, and since f is continuous it will map an open interval to some sort of an interval (maybe open, close, half-open, all of them are Borel that's what we care about). Therefore the image of U under f will be a countable union of intervals OR a countable union of Borel sets. Which is a again a Borel set. Is this the right approach?? How did you do it for general n and m??

    • @robertschumann6977
      @robertschumann6977 Год назад +3

      Yes, that's correct for the 1D case (the rigorous argument would be that an open interval is connected and connectedness is preserved under continuous transformations, hence also its image will be connected and thus an interval). For the general case you want to argue by means of compact sets since compactness is preserved under continuous transformations. This means all you have to do is to show that an open subset of R^n can be written as the countable union of compact sets (e.g. dyadic decomposition).

    • @PhDVlog777
      @PhDVlog777  Год назад +3

      @@robertschumann6977 this guy has it

  • @siddharthjain2127
    @siddharthjain2127 Год назад

    I'm assistant professor of mathematics
    I suggest you try question paper NTA CSIR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
    This is national Eligibility test in India for assistant professor certificate

  • @CoolCatDoingAKickflip
    @CoolCatDoingAKickflip Год назад +1

    1:22 Haha, Bj 😂

  • @yanntal954
    @yanntal954 Год назад +1

    These are easier than the exams I had as an undergraduate and we had way less time (2.5 hours for each exam) I am so confused 😢

    • @jeecrack3396
      @jeecrack3396 Год назад +5

      Stop lying bro

    • @yanntal954
      @yanntal954 Год назад +1

      @@jeecrack3396 That's most definitely not a lie, year 2 sem 2 here we have complex functions (which is complex analysis) and we go deep into this subject, we end up in conformal mappings and mostly talk about the Mobius mapping but also others. In year 3 sem 1 we have what we call "modern analysis" which is basically real analysis but we really go deeply into banach spaces and hilbert spaces as well of course measure theory. The exam had as question 1 literally to find a set of outer measure 1/2 that isn't lebesgue measurable and I think there was also a condition that it's in [0, 1] (I still have no idea what you were supposed to do there btw). Most integral problems in analysis you would use Tonellis theorem because its for some reason way more useful than Fubini for many problems and there were really difficult double integrals to prove things about using it!

    • @theflaggeddragon9472
      @theflaggeddragon9472 Год назад +1

      @@yanntal954What university?

    • @HopUpOutDaBed
      @HopUpOutDaBed Год назад +1

      what was harvard like?

    • @magickauras
      @magickauras Год назад +1

      At UofT i had exam problems that looked easy at first glance but ended up stumping me for an hour.

  • @prempun5906
    @prempun5906 Год назад

    hehe bawlz

  • @josephstalin5003
    @josephstalin5003 Год назад +1

    Is this guy like Terrance Tao?
    I want to be like this how can I do this as quick as possible

    • @BboyKeny
      @BboyKeny Год назад +6

      I think working through math books and daily practice.
      You can't really skip to much when talking about the fundamentals but after that all of math opens up for you. (pre-)Algebra -> Trig -> (pre-)Calc -> complex numbers.
      For analysis you need to know logic, sets and proof writing. Which is basically building math up from logic to proof the stuff you use in Calculus.
      There are many more subjects in mathematics but basically if you're doing Real Analysis and you understand the way of thinking then you are well equipped to tackle any other subject.

    • @idealized_
      @idealized_ Год назад

      @@BboyKenythank you for the advice.

  • @RandomGameClips27
    @RandomGameClips27 Год назад +1

    early view gang

  • @fairnut6418
    @fairnut6418 Год назад

    How I feel hearing a math problem:🥱😴

  • @frootylupus
    @frootylupus Год назад

    Congrats!!