Meena Mahajan's favourite Links

• The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science
  A hip article by Chazelle on the impending algorithmic revolution in +science.
  
  
• Science and Gender and Life
  One of the best blogs I have read (unfortunately discontinued now, but the archives are still online)
  
  
• How to read a research paper
  An article by Michael Mitzenmacher written around 2000 for his graduate seminar class.
  
  
• A few mathematical study skills ... Reading Theorems
  An article by Ashley Reiter Ahlin about properly understanding a mathematical theorem.
  
  
• Writing your first paper
  An article by Steven Krantz that appears in the Notices of the AMS, Dec 2007, in a series intended for graduate students.
  
  
• Writing clear math An aritcle by Igor Pak
  
  
• Research Skills
  Simon Peyton Jones, of Microsoft Research, wrote a paper on giving a research talk for SIGPLAN Notices in 1993. The page cited above has this, and other related resources as well.
  
  
• Ten lessons I wish I had been taught
  by Gian-Carlo Rota, MIT. 1996
  
  
• The Music of the Primes
  
  
• The Complexity Zoo
  
  
• The PhD experience
  
  
• Oded Goldreich on Programme Committees
  
  
• How to learn, and how to explain!
  
  
• Is P=NP? Is it? What do the experts and the non-experts say?