Advice for Probability Graduate Students
Be sure to attend seminars in your department, as well as conferences.
Online seminars are also very convenient.
Conferences and Summer Schools
Math Institutes
Online Resources
- Current Preprints
- ArXiv Probability Preprints
- Download Articles (older than 1 or 2 years)
- JSTOR
- Project Euclid
- Electronic Journals
- Electronic Journal of Probability
- Probability Surveys
- Latin American J. of Prob. and Math. Stat.
- Personal Web Pages
- Another good way to find papers.
- Zoom Seminars
- Rutgers Math Physics Webinar, ask Elie Salomon to add you to the mailing list.
- One World Probability Seminar
Opinions and Philosophy
Life in General
- Video on the importance long-term effort.
- Jobs at Companies, from the point of view of Statistics.
Mathematics
- Weinan E, The Dawning of a New Era in Applied Mathematics
- Mumford, The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity
- Serre, How to Write Mathematics Badly
- Thurston, On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
- Thurston, What Does a Mathematician Do?
Avoiding Self-Delusion
- Donoho, Reproducible Research
- Feynman, Cargo Cult Science
- Freedman, Statistical Models and Shoe Leather
General Advice
- Fan Chung’s Advice for Grad Students
- Terence Tao’s Career Advice
- Tao, Does One Have to be a Genius to do Maths?
- Ravi Vakil’s Advice for Grad Students
- Steven Weinberg, Four Golden Lessons
- Harvard’s Guide to Graduate Study in Math.
Online Books
The following archives have huge numbers of wonderful math books and papers. Their status is uncertain; use at your own discretion.
Special Pages
- Women in Probability
- The Big Math Network, about jobs at companies.