Misc

Advices

• How should I deal with becoming discouraged as a graduate student? by Aru Ray. See the answer by Jeff Erickson.

• Some materials for new grad students (and their mentors) collected by Mike Rosulek.
• Should I feel bad to not know how to answer a very hard challenging problem that my professors ask?, answered by Jeff Erickson.
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz.
• The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life by Radhika Nagpal.
• PhD Rants and Raves (Be afraid. Be very afraid.) by Yannis Smaragdakis.
• Doing (mathematical) research by Peter Cameron.
• Four golden lessons by Steven Weinberg.

Links

• How to do math.
• TCS blog aggregator.
• A history of the PCP Theorem
• Understanding the inverse Ackermann function
• On our duties as scientists
• Get a paper rejected with a strange review? You are not alone, look at these giants.
• Tufte-Latex; a very nice Latex package for books and notes.
• Knuth’s lectures on math writing
• Five Proofs of Chernoff’s Bound