<p>NYU [Courant</a> Institute.](<a href=“http://www.cims.nyu.edu/]Courant”>http://www.cims.nyu.edu/)</p>
<p>anymore feedback?</p>
<p>Princeton is tops in mathematics</p>
<p>NYU-Courant institute is also great</p>
<p>MIT is more of a technical school, the pure stuff goes down at Caltech</p>
<p>I hear there is a math professor at UChicago that smashes phones if they go on during his class</p>
<p>UCLA has Terence Tao who I believe is the youngest Fields Medal recipient. It would be an honor to study under him I suppose.</p>
<p>Also Harvard, Columbia, etc.</p>
<p>[Rankings</a> - Math - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-mathematics-programs/rankings]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-mathematics-programs/rankings)</p>
<p>Foreign Schools:</p>
<p>Moscow State University
St. Petersburg
Seoul National University
Tsinghua
Cambridge</p>
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<p>It’s much more important that you make the most of the program you’re in than that you go to the top program in the world. You should do your research (meaning look at the schools’ websites yourself), ask questions of the specific schools and go to the school where you’re most comfortable.</p>
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<p>I don’t think insanity necessarily makes for the best learning experience.</p>
<p>To those who say Oxford you are mistaken. Oxford is the THE top of the world for English and Classics and is better at humanities in general, whereas Cambridge is best at math(s) and sciences. This being said I think that Trinity College, Cambridge would be the best if it were not for a little something called Math 55 at Harvard (if you don’t know it, look it up). That makes Trinity and Harvard too close to call…</p>
<p>MIT is not actually that great for math it’s more of an engineer’s school…</p>
<p>masstech and CIT, chicago, Princeton, oxbridge</p>
<p>In the US the top two math depts are Harvard, Trinity College Cambridge and Princeton. Hard to distinguish them because each has something special that make it so fantastic… Harvard has Math 55, Trinity (well Cambridge in general) has the Tripos system and Princeton math dept has a very good relationship with the Institute for Advanced Study.</p>
<p>As for UChicago (which a lot of people are brining up) it is slipping a bit although as long as Prof. Salley (or Prof. Sally I can’t spell the name) is there and is teaching his Honors Analysis course it will be among the top depts in the country. That being said it is not as good as it was say 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Caltech is fantastic but because of the nature of it’s core curriculum I think that it leans to applied rather than pure math.</p>
<p>I’d be careful with places like UCLA with their amazing mathematicians on faculty because I’d be willing to bet that if they even teach classes (they may be just research professors) then they do not teach anything but the TOP TOP grad school classes.</p>
<p>Terry Tao taught Linear Algebra a few years ago. But he has only taught graduate level classes in recent years (Real Analysis last year and Topics in Real Analysis this year). Of course, if you’re lucky, maybe you get into the BS/MA program and take Real Analysis the year he’s teaching it.</p>
<p>But this assumes that the most amazing mathematicians are even the best teachers. Tao has average reviews, far lower than a guy like Fred Park, who got his PhD in 2006 and is now at UCI. Similarly, I took a class last quarter in symbolic logic taught by one of the world’s leading logicians, and there was nothing especially remarkable about the class (though it was easy to learn the concepts). At that level, his skills were probably somewhat wasted.</p>
<p>I would strongly advise looking into the various programs offered at each school and choosing the place where you’re most comfortable. All of the schools listed in this thread are world class, and it’s not a make or break decision choosing between them. Unless you aren’t happy there and your grades suffer or you decide to leave (likely to a less prestigious place).</p>
<p>Chicago is where I would go (and am applying) for math.</p>
<p>Something to keep in mind, you guys are listing amazing schools that are going to have brilliant profs not matter what. These people eat undergrad math for breakfast (although, whether or not they can explain it to you is a whole other question). If you get into multiple schools on this list don’t go to the one that you think has the most renowned math department, look to other factors.</p>
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I can personally only vouch for the humanities, but the difference between them is vastly overstated. Cambridge has some extremely heavy hitters in Classics – Mary Beard, Nigel Spivey, and especially Colin Renfrew among them. </p>
<p>Another poster commented similarly about the sciences.
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<p>Indeed, both major league tables place Oxford and Cambridge nearly neck and neck for math.</p>
<p>[University</a> guide 2010: Mathematics | Education | guardian.co.uk](<a href=“http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2009/may/12/university-guide-mathematics]University”>University guide 2010: Mathematics | Education | theguardian.com)
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<p>My grandparents told me that Warwick was #1 for math. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Trinity College. What about the other colleges in Cambridge? I thought university provides lectures…</p>
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Ian Stewart = Win</p>
<p>Warwick does have a very good reputation, almost on par with Cambridge.</p>