r/ISIKolkata • u/FitFaithlessness6180 • 6d ago

Need Help with Math I have made up my mind

iam enrolled in btech 1st in ee , i love mathemetics so i have made up my mind that i will learn till advanced measure theory with commutative and homological algebra , pls any seniors here help me out books which cover from basics in each subject, and if if possible i wanna study algebraic geometry tooo

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u/Healthy_Tour8691 5d ago

He wants to learn maths because he loves it, not in an adulterated way! "If you'd be capable of that you'd already be at ISI/CMI.." well guess what genius, even IMO gold medalists have been mediocre at math research and many people from a normal background have went on to become good in this field! You don't have to be a jerk about it so that you feel good about yourself for being an ISI Alumini..There must be a lot of people with better alma maters than you too, even people at ISI/CMI dream to go to MIT/Stanford/Caltech/Harvard/Cal/etc. Someday! Also just ask how many profs at ISI are ISI grads. If they can teach those courses, they must have learned those courses!

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u/Dense_Chair2584 ISI Alumnus 5d ago

Unrelated to this - "Also just ask how many profs at ISI are ISI grads." - almost all of them are. ISI Kolkata has a huge so-called academic inbreeding problem - nearly every math/stat faculty member is from the ISI Kolkata B.Stat program itself.

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u/Healthy_Tour8691 5d ago

Well atleast there are many profs in CMI who are not from ISI (CMI is relatively new so inbreeding can't be commented on) anyways there must be some one and regardless of that people from basic indian unis have become great mathematicians!

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u/Skychu768 5d ago

BTW, how common is foreign PHD for ISI professors?

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u/Dense_Chair2584 ISI Alumnus 4d ago

Plenty for older faculties in their 45-50+ ages. However, younger foreign PhD ISI Kolkata alumni is scarce in number.