Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Mathematics at Indiana University

印第安纳大学的本科生研究体验项目始于1966年，为一小群精选的有才华的学生提供机会，让他们体验研究一个目前尚不知道解决方案的问题的强度。在夏季的八周时间里，学生们与印第安纳大学的一名教师进行一对一的学习，培养他们解决抽象问题的能力、智力耐力、创造力、毅力、沟通技巧和职业道德。我们项目的大多数校友继续攻读高级学位，其中许多人现在在学术界、商界和政府部门担任着重要职位。这些学生的兴趣可能各不相同，总的经验将使他们对数学和工作中的数学家的力量、发展和有用性有一种欣赏。这群人一方面会理解数学惊人的多样性，另一方面也会理解跨越学科和世纪的深刻统一主题。这个项目的长期影响是提高未来决策者和领导者的数学意识。这种认识可能导致在决策和创造新技术方面更广泛地使用数学方法。

The Indiana Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Indiana University, begun in 1966, offers a small, select, talented group of students the opportunity to experience the intensity of working on a problem whose solution is currently unknown. Working one-on-one with an IU faculty member for eight weeks during the summer, students develop their abstract problem solving skills, intellectual stamina, creativity, perseverance, communication skills, and work ethic. Most alumni of our program go on to pursue advanced degrees, and many now hold prestigious positions in academia, business, and government. The overall experience will give these students, whose interests may be quite diverse, an appreciation of the power, evolution, and usefulness of mathematics and of working mathematicians. This group will come to understand on the one hand the amazing diversity of mathematics, and on the other hand the deep unifying themes which span disciplines and centuries. The long term impact of this program is to increase the mathematical awareness of future decision makers and leaders. Such awareness may lead to wider use of mathematical methods in decision making and in creating new technologies.