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University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia Jedi Training: What it's like to be a postgraduate mathematics research student Jon Xu University of Melbourne/University of Western Australia

The Cast Prof. Arun Ram, Principal Supervisor, Unimelb Myself MPhil student from USyd (-> PhD) A/Prof. John Bamberg, Co-Supervisor, UWA

The Hunt

Some generalized polygons The Doily The Fano Plane

Meeting Arun Ram

Admission and Funding

'Algebraising' Geometry -circle becomes the graph of x^2 + y^2 = 1 René Descartes: 1596-1650

Arrival at Melbourne: 1st September 2012

Getting to know the mathematics community Visitor: Kevin Purbhoo From the University of Waterloo, Canada

Learning to write mathematics

Getting Feedback

Denmark – March 2013

Slowly learning finite geometry

PRIMA 2013

First Approximations

Einstein on the Beach and Repetition

Mindfulness Meditation and removing the ego

What does my work involve? Using symbols to study symmetry. Why do I want to become mathematician? It's the only thing I can do well that will keep me from getting bored. But then, why should I get paid? Curiosity based research has a tendency to progress humanity (amongst other things)

-Calculus (along with Leibniz) Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Discovers: -Calculus (along with Leibniz) -Law of gravitation -Optics Motivated by: Curiosity.

More specific to mathematics: Finding the 'right' way to do things ~300 years later

Euclid's 'Elements' ~300B.C. ~2000 years later

Disgust The 'right' proof might look something like...