<p>I have been doing Math research for the past two and half years with my former highschool teacher.
I think I really have found some interesting math methods.
So do you think I should send my papers to the MIT admissions, though
they are not math professors?
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<p>Do you guys think that I should send my papers to an MIT math professor, then get a recommendation from him/her? or meet with them and show my work?
If you think so, Do you know MIT math professor who is very helpful, I mean can take a look my papers?</p>
<p>I would also love if there are some math majors/math lovers who could give me their email adress, so we can talk about Mathematics at MIT. We can also talk about my research if you think you can help.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that if you send in a research paper the admissions committee will give it to the appropriate department to evaluate (although not positive here…), but I don’t think they want to be receiving full research papers. Maybe you can send in the abstracts, but then write an essay about your research. Don’t talk about the technical stuff, but more what got you started in it, why you do it, and what you’ve learned in the process. A lot of people use the “something you’ve created” essay to do this.</p>
<p>Well, I never imagined that anything short than solving a Millennium Prize problem (give or take an order of magnitude of esteem, or two) would be noteworthy enough to warrant special attention. But I really wouldn’t know.</p>
<p>I would not send more than a short abstract. The admission staff won’t read your paper and neither will the faculty. They just don’t have the time. On the other hand, a strong personal letter by your teacher could go a long way to show your commitment to research.</p>
<p>I sent them a 20 page research paper on 3 years of my research and they didn’t seem to mind…it definitely didn’t hurt. Helps if the research was entered in fairs or competitions like Intel/Siemens and placed to give some credibility.</p>
<p>Yeah I sent in my 27-paged math research…hahaha I just re-read the paper I submitted at that time a month ago and it seems almost silly now. Thanks to MIT for putting up with it =p</p>
<p>But the general rule is that you should ONLY send abstracts, unless the school appears to be generally okay with sending in extra material (for example, MIT tends to be pretty flexible - people send in all kinds of things). I remember Yale explicitly saying on their website that anything extraneous other than the application proper will be thrown out, so exercise judgment =)</p>
<p>oasis,
Are you a math major?
I am not sure if it will look silly after years, but know mine seems interesting.
For example I can find the Taylor’s polynomial approximation for 1/(1-x),1/(1+x^2), tan(x), etc, or even two variable functions like z=1/(1+x+y) and some other interesting stuff.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me as with oasis. I went back and read my 20 page paper recently and definitely thought it was kinda silly now, almost juvenile perhaps, and I caught some theoretical errors. No matter how good you think your work is (and there are definitely people who come in with significant research) it all gets put into perspective real quick. I feel like they solved half of my quantum research during the first month of 7.112 ha…</p>