Also, you should consult "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. He discusses the power of image extensively - how simulated reality has replaced real to such an extreme that "real" no longer exists.
PDF online for free: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Baudrillard-Simulacra_and_Simulation.pdf
Hi All
I'm new here but I've read some threads in this forum. I'm so sorry for bypassing. I got accepted into MMEF program in Pantheon-Sorbonne, as well as Master of Finance in the Australian National University.
Just wondering if any of them is a better option if my goal in the long run is to do a phd in LSE or top 20 US (I'm thinking Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, or even MIT )
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Undergrad: IIA (2nd Upper Class) Honours in Mathematics
Undergrad GPA: 3.3.
Teaching experience: Tutor for calculus I and II, and Stats I
Research experience: Undergrad Honours Thesis monte carlo/parameterisation of Stochastic Differential Equations, summer research scholarship under school of maths (pseudo-random number generator)
Advanced (PhD/Hons) Courses taken in Undergrad: Advanced Analysis and PDE, Financial Calculus, Algebraic Methods in Mathematical Physics, Advanced Probability and Stochastic Processes, Complex and Functional analysis, Coding and Cryptography, Advanced Experimental Design