• On the importance of partial progress
• Timeline of postdoc applications | Lovely little lemmas
• What are some useful, but little-known, features of the tools used in professional mathematics?
• On time management
• Continually aim just beyond your current range
• Batch low-intensity tasks together
• Does one have to be a genius to do maths?
• Which universities should one apply to?
• Solving mathematical problems
• Advice on gifted education
• On writing
• Be considerate of your audience
• Talks are not the same as papers
• Make your work available
• Write down what you’ve done
• Use the wastebasket
• Don’t prematurely obsess on a single “big problem” or “big theory”
• Be professional in your work
• Be flexible
• Be patient
• Attend talks and conferences, even those not directly related to your work
• Take the initiative
• Talk to your advisor
• Study at different places
• Think ahead
• Be sceptical of your own work
• Ask yourself dumb questions – and answer them!
• Learn the power of other mathematicians’ tools
• Learn the limitations of your tools
• Don’t be afraid to learn things outside your field
• Learn and relearn your field
• Don’t base career decisions on glamour or fame
• Enjoy your work
• Work hard
• There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs
• There’s more to mathematics than grades and exams and methods
• Advice on mathematics competitions
• The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine - Nymag
• advice
• Advice for Students --- Especially Graduate Students in Statistics
• AMS Notices Of The American Mathematical Society
• For potential Ph.D. students
• Graduate Student Guide
• hamming advice
• On our duties as scientists
• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
• Williams College - Systems Down