Application Essay and Cantor Sets

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<p>tu160m, the more I read your posts the more I wonder if you are trying to puff yourself up for the sake of looking good in front of a crowd, or if you are truly one of the special few individuals who are in a league of their own and just sound pompous because they don’t realize their own greatness and treat it as something ordinary.</p>

<p>The reason I say this is because no respectable professor on this earth will say “I’d love to get your work published,” and I have never, ever heard any professor, particularly in math and science, use such language. Professors, grad students, undergrads, and high-schoolers all go through the same process. They submit a manuscript to a journal, the journal sends it out for peer review, if the reviews are positive the paper gets published. If a professors offers to “get your work published” by tacking their name to your work, then you are dealing with an ethically challenged person and should stay away. If your work is truly publishable, 99% of the professors out there will offer to mentor you through the publication process, without tacking their name to your work. Sure, having the name of a professor attached can help get reviewers to treat the work more seriously, but if you are going to do that then you better make sure that you are working with someone who will do so if and only if they have made substantial contributions to the work. Reading the manuscript is not a substantial contribution.</p>

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Another statement that does not fully make sense. If it is truly a simple pattern, any old desktop should be able to crank through at least a billion possibilities in a week, you should be able to program it yourself without the need for a supercomputer.</p>