A note to my current students: this page is not directly relevant to the content of the courses I’m teaching. For links relevant to the courses I’ve taught, see my Teaching page. However, the first link under “Resources containing advice” would certainly be relevant to them, and students might find interesting things here under “Fun math stuff.”
Resources containing advice:
How to Study Math in College. This is a page on the OSU Math Department’s website detailing a number of successful strategies for learning math and studying for math exams that should be valuable to most undergraduate students.
Here are some slides I wrote for the UCR Math Club which were featured on the Math Subreddit’s Graduate School Panel (which had terrific questions and answers for those thinking about applying to graduate school in mathematics). They contain various bits of information about the process of applying to graduate school and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, as well as general advice for becoming a competitive applicant and writing application essays. I’ve been told these are excellent by several people, so hopefully you’ll like them and find some use for the information they provide. If you use them for your own slides or whatever, I would appreciate being credited.
An excellent blog post on the grad school application process including advice and sample essays. This is geared for science in general, but it’s still pretty relevant.
If You Must Go to Grad School…, an excellent piece from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Written by an English professor, but most of the advice is applicable to nearly every discipline.
Terry Tao’s career advice page on his blog
Fun math stuff:
My presentation on the math behind the Futurama episode Prisoner of Benda. This was written for the UCR Math Club. Should be very readable for almost anyone since I develop everything from the ground up, but I should give people some fair warning: it introduces some abstract algebra (which hopefully isn’t too impossible to understand!).
My Projective Geometry talk for UCR Math club June 2014. It should be a fairly accessible for the average person, up to the appendix.
John Baez’s Google+ Page: This page has lots of fun math stuff written at a very approachable level. I highly recommend visiting, even if you don’t consider yourself very interested in math. Dr. Baez is probably my favorite professor of all time, and his class (which I was lucky enough to have in my first quarter at UCR) was a major reason as to why I decided to major in math.
John Baez’s Blog: Similar to his Google+ page, though he writes in much more detail here.
The American Mathematical Society’s Visual Insight Blog: This is much like Baez’s Google+ page, but it’s all pretty math pictures!
My own academic blog started with other graduate students (currently inactive)
Other: