Sir, do we have to mug up derivations or every question will be passion-oriented if we are planning to appear in an European PhD interview in pure mathematics?
They may question your basics and ask questions on the subject where you are planning your thesis. It depends to a large extent on the professor concerned. I don’t think they expect you to mug things up but remember there is a lot of expected knowledge which students think of as mugging but professors think people Know at the tip of the tongue as they have been teaching the same subjects for many years. For example my math interview question series are frequently asked and students cannot say they don’t remember integrals, derivatives of trigonometric identities. Math Mastery for Interviews, Tutorial 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iTNeOplzE8I.html
@@Drganguli Sir, your tutorials are nothing to me as I am a mathematics student. I am not telling it in a negative sense, don't get me wrong. But, PDE was not taught to us in sufficient depth in India. In EU, they teach lot more in the postgraduate programs. That's why I am bothered about the difficulty level of the technical questions I might face during the PhD interviews. I am fine with the research-oriented and soft skill type questions.
@@academicgladiator Yea you can be asked deep questions on PDE about their nature, solution etc. you should study the books. But don’t get caught not being able to do simple math Olympiad type questions as that comes across badly
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