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Richard C. Brewster (x 2)
Bruce A. Reed
Douglas B. West
Hehui Wu (x 2)
Xuding Zhu

"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."

--David Hilbert

"I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."

--Paul R. Halmos

"A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so."

-- John von Neumann

"Chebyshev said it, and I say it again. There is always a prime between n and 2n."

--Paul Erdős

"The first sign of senility is that a man forgets his theorems, the second sign is that he forgets to zip up, the third sign is that he forgets to zip down."

--Stanislaw Ulam

Math Links

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

-- G. H. Hardy

McGill Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

McGill Discrete Mathematics Group.

Open Problem Garden: A great source of open problems in math.

Doug West's list of open problems in graph theory and combinatorics.

MathSciNet: For searching math publications. Login through the McGill library.

The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: Nifty tool for identifying sequences.

Also see the conference page and links to course notes.

Math Career Advice

Gian-Carlo Rota's Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught.

Advice to a Young Mathematician with contributions from Sir Michael Atiyah, Béla Bollobás, Alain Connes, Dusa McDuff, and Peter Sarnak.

William P. Thurston's On Proof and Progress in Mathematics.

Terence Tao's Career Advice.

Fan Chung's Advice for grad students.

Writing and Presenting Math

Paul Halmos' How to Write Mathematics and How to Talk Mathematics.

Doug West's The Grammar According to West.

Terence Tao's On Writing

Tim Gower's How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians?.

Other Interesting Articles

Joel Spencer and Ron Graham's article on the controversy surrounding The Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem.

Fun Problems

Can you solve the smurf problem?

Other Graph Theory Students

Vinicius dos Santos: PhD student at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Phablo Moura: Master's student at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Karol Maia: PhD student at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France.

Julio Araujo: PhD student at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France.

Leonardo Sampaio Rocha: PhD student at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France.

Kerstin Weller: PhD student at University of Oxford, UK.

Jan Volec: PhD student at University of Warwick, UK.

Katherine Edwards: PhD student at Princeton University, USA.

Michelle Delcourt: PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Shagnik Das: PhD student at University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Ross Churchley: PhD student at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Bundit Laekhanukit: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.

Nicolás Fraiman: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.

Atefeh Mohajeri: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.

Xing Shi Cai: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.

Tao Lei: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.

Laura Eslava: PhD student at McGill University, Canada.