Gravity Turn | Radimentary
[The first in a sequence of retrospective essays on my five years in math graduate school.] My favorite analogy for graduate school is the gravity turn: the maneuver a rocket performs to get from t…
Gravity Turn | Radimentary Radimentary "Everything can be made radically elementary." ~Steven Rudich Gravity Turn by radimentary [The first in a sequence of retrospective essays on my five years in math graduate school.] My favorite analogy for graduate school is the gravity turn : the maneuver a rocket performs to get from the launch pad to orbit. I like to imagine a first-year graduate student as a Falcon X rocket, newly-constructed and tasked with delivering a six-ton payload into low Earth orbit. Picture this: you begin graduate school, fresh as a rocket arriving at Cape Canaveral and bubb
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