The Steamer Trunk

If you're looking for material which was on my Notre Dame web pages, look no further. What I felt was worth salvaging from there is now here (though I entertain requests. I don't necessarily fulfill them, but I entertain them).

The Notre Dame thesis class for LaTeX. For that I kept the whole page. Links not guaranteed to work, except for ndthesis.cls, thesisfront.tex, and simplethesisfront.tex.

On the LaTeX topic, an introduction to LaTeX I wrote some time ago, introducing the idea of how TeX works by analogy with HTML. The analogy is complete but the page was more ambitious than that, so the page itself is incomplete.

If you are looking at my page because you are interested in graduate school in math, or if you are looking at my page for unrelated reasons but happen to also be interested in graduate school in some field, I wrote up a page of advice for prospective grad students on the application and selection process. It is unabashedly my own opinion, but I know when I'm looking at doing something and am not sure of myself, I like to get as many opinions as possible. So there you have it.

And due to the overwhelming success of the advice page, I have produced a second advice page, on surviving graduate school without mortgaging your personal happiness.

Disclaimer: I haven't checked the links below since 2004.

Well, after some looking, I've found some pretty decent math entertainment web pages around. The Mathematical Quotation Server is perhaps not "entertainment" per se, and is definitely hard to navigate, but interesting nonetheless. I have no recollection how I came upon Math Fun with the Ramones but it is worth pointing out if only for your daily dose of dada. The most complete list of mathematician jokes I have found is this one from the Cherkaevs. A page with math humor, not all of it "jokes" strictly speaking, is the Science Jokes mathematician section. Both of the above are long single pages, but if you can wade through them there are some real gems.

In this section probably also belongs mathematical art. My favorite is Kerry Mitchell, whose work I discovered in the Phoenix Joint Meetings art display.

My own mathematical entertainment: math parodies of poems and jingles. And non-mathematical but for good measure, a sonnet I wrote in twenty minutes one midnight some years ago.

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Last updated: March 3, 2006