Listed below are some useful items for you.
Overview
Readings
- Our main resource for the course is Noga Alon’s Combinatorial Nullstellensatz.
Many other important papers may be found at Noga Alon’s homepage. - One may find many manuscripts deposited here, arXiv.org
- The American Mathematical Society maintains an important database, MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews
Advice on writing mathematics
- Writing a Math Paper. From MIT Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics
- How to Write Mathematics, by Paul Halmos.
Articles to read about giving a mathematics talk
- P. Halmos’ “How to Talk Mathematics”
- Terry Tao’s “Talks are not the same as papers”
- Jordan Ellenberg’s “Tips on giving talks”
- Bryna Kra’s “Giving a talk”
- William Ross’ “How to give a good 20-minute math talk”
- John McCarthy’s “How to Give a Good Colloquium”
TeX Resources
- TeXShop (Mac) or MikTeX (Windows).
- Grätzer’s Math into LaTeX web resources. Includes PDF Short Course and Symbol Table.
- Detexify will help you find symbols.
- One page symbol guide.
- Simple documentation about Beamer can be found at Beamer by Example.