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A comment on The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematics (2013).

Re:The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematic... by yequalsx on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:24PM (#8331891)
His advisor, T.T. Moh, would not write letters of recommendation. This confirms my low opinion of T.T. Moh. I had him as an instructor at Purdue during graduate school. The worst teacher I ever had.
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Re:The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematic... by smanatstpete on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:57PM (#8332050)
As per Moh, Zhang never asked Moh for letters of recommendation (I find that hard to believe. Zhang would not mention it if he had not asked Moh for help). http://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf
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Re:The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, Riches, and Fame in Mathematic... by yequalsx on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @04:26PM (#8332190)
Yeah, that's simply not believable.
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