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By: vishwajeet singh

vishwajeet singh — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:47:42 +0000

Hello Dr Tao,
I’ve just started my studies in Random Matrices. Could you please tell me what foundations do I need to have before I can delve into the advanced theory of Random Matrix. Do I need to have foundation in Analysis, Measure Theory, Probability, Algebra or I can exclude Analysis??
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Armin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:02:58 +0000

Hi Professor. I just started my two-year college. I want to transfer to UCLA for my undergraduate pure mathematics program. The degree my college offers is an “Associates of Arts”. Would it be fine to transfer with this degree?

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By: Terence Tao

Terence Tao — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:37:02 +0000

Prior to 2006, I was not aware that publishers were willing to enter into publishing contracts while also permitting the author to post full versions of the text online. (There are a few precedents for this, but until recently it was quite rare, in contrast with papers in which online repositories such as the arXiv are well established.)

By: Nat Whilk

Nat Whilk — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:31:22 +0000

Why did you make such agreements prior to 2006? If it’s wrong for other mathematicians not to make their papers freely available now, why wasn’t it wrong for you to make agreements prior to 2006 that made your books not freely available?

By: Terence Tao

Terence Tao — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:58:25 +0000

That disclaimer is mostly applicable to the books I published up to 2006, for which the copyright is held by the publisher without an explicit agreement to make a full online version available (though I do have sample chapters for most of these books on this site). I obtained such an agreement for the books I published after 2006, and full online versions of these books are available on this web site.

By: Nat Whilk

Nat Whilk — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:56:12 +0000

“I will unfortunately not be able to respond to any requests for full-length copies of these books, beyond the material already linked to in these pages.”

I assume that requests for copies of your book don’t literally leave you unable to speak or type. I assume you mean that you choose not to distribute your books freely. How do you reconcile that choice with your proclamation (in regard to the Elsevier boycott) that all mathematicians should make the papers they write freely available? Our papers should be free but your books shouldn’t?