MIT Student: Must Be Math Prodigy?

[collegealum314]

<p>@mobile: It's curious that you refer to MIT professors as "employees"; though correct, it's not a common description of them. However, it is a nice way to minimize Quillen and Douglass' association with MIT.</p>

[collegealum314]

<p>"Even though I always complain about how ridiculously easy MIT math courses can get, I always thought that they had one of the strongest undergraduate student bodies for mathematics."</p>

<p>What do you know about the MIT curriculum? Aren't you the same guy who was bragging about doing lemma-delta proofs?</p>

[jessiehl]

<p>How many usernames has this guy had now? He was doing this the <em>first</em> time I was on CC, before my over-a-year-long break from the site.</p>

<p>Go away, dude, you're not even a fun troll by this point.</p>

<p>Or maybe I am being unfair to him. Maybe there are actually that many different trolls who make repetitive posts in the MIT forum about the relative number of Harvard and MIT Fields Medal winners.</p>

[tokenadult]

<p>Must be a troll.</p>

[mootmom]

<p>Let's see....

@mobile_CCC

MIT math is good but No one from MIT ever won Fields Medal & Harvard is #1 in this year's math competition.</p>

<p>Harvard, Caltech, Princeton Math are top 3 math department in US Most of Fields medal winners, Putnam Math competiton winners graduated from these top 3 schools.

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<p>Anyone remember poxpox from April 2007?
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/3917661-post42.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/3917661-post42.html&lt;/a>

@poxpox

Actually, the very best top math superstars are NOT at MIT, there are more Putham math winners from MIT simply bacause there are more math students from MIT ( MIT math is about 10 times bigger than Harvard, Princeton, Caltech)</p>

<p>The very best top math student usually go to Harvard, Caltech, Caltech. That is why 1st place winning team is usually Harvard or Caltech or Princeton. That is why no one from MIT has ever won Fields Medal even though there are more MIT math graduates than Harvard, Caltech, Princeton, Yale , Columbia and Stanford combined. Most of the Fields medal winner are graduates of Harvard, Princeton & Caltech.

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<p>Good call, jessiehl.</p>