I totally understand how you feel about ideas being stolen. Although this usually rarely happens in my field (we subspecialize so quickly and so deeply that anyone else in my department would need at least a year or two of further study to use a stolen idea), the fear is still VERY real. Like that time a few months ago where I saw the ONE grad student in my department who's clearly a much better mathematician than me reading the foundational book for my area...
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Date: 2009-07-28 04:40 pm (UTC)I totally understand how you feel about ideas being stolen. Although this usually rarely happens in my field (we subspecialize so quickly and so deeply that anyone else in my department would need at least a year or two of further study to use a stolen idea), the fear is still VERY real. Like that time a few months ago where I saw the ONE grad student in my department who's clearly a much better mathematician than me reading the foundational book for my area...