Useful Resources

Archived Theses

Archived theses are available online and in the department's library.

Books on Writing

The following books provide guidance on writing well:

BUGS in Writing: A Guide to Debugging Your Prose, revised edition
Lyn Dupré
Addison Wesley, 1998
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences
N.J. Higham
SIAM, 1993
“Mathematical Writing”
D.E. Knuth, T. Larrabee, and P.M. Roberts
Math. Notes No. 14, MAA, 1989
Based on lectures from Stanford course on writing mathematics
A Primer of Mathematical Writing
S. Krantz
American Mathematical Society, 1997
How to Write Mathematics
Norman E. Stewart, Paul R. Halmos, Menachem M. Schiffer, Jean A. Diendonné
American Mathematical Society, 1981. (Reprinted with corrections.)
The Elements of Style
W. Strunk and E.B. White
Macmillan, 1979
Classic book on writing well
Mathematics into Type, Updated Edition
Ellen Swanson; updated by Arlene O'Sean and Antoinette Schleyer
American Mathematical Society, 1999.

Books on TeX and LaTeX

The TeX Book
D.E. Knuth
Addison Wesley, 1993
A Guide to LaTeX, third edition
H. Kopka and P.W. Daly
Addison Wesley, 1999
The LaTeX Companion
M. Goosens, F. Mittelbach, and A. Samarin
Addison Wesley, 1994
Math into LaTeX, third edition
George Grätzer
Birkhauser, 2000

Electronic Resources

MathSciNet database
For searching the mathematics literature
Access is through the Claremont Libraries' database list or directly from the AMS.
The Web of Science database
Access is through the Claremont Libraries' database list or directly from the ISI Web of Knowledge
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
An online compendium of mathematical facts from the quadratic formula to hypergeometric functions.

How to Give Good Presentations

Reference Materials for Speeches and Presentations (Colorado State University Writing Center)
Effective Presentations, Jeff Radel (Kansas University Medical Center)
How to Give a Good Talk, Joseph Gallian. (Math Horizons, April, 1998)
Simon Peyton Jones, et al., on research skills
How to Give a Good Research Talk (Peyton Jones, Hughes, and Launchbury, SIGPLAN Notices, 28(11), Nov, 1993.) (PDF)
Real Video of Simon giving the talk
Real Video of Simon on How to Write a Good Research Paper
Simon also has links to other good resources.
SIAM: Tips for Making Effective Presentations
The Short Talk, Charles Van Loan
How to Give a Talk: Advice on Preparing and Presenting Technical Talks in the Mathematical Sciences, Tamara Kolda (NECIS Student Seminar Series, Sandia National Labs, July 19, 2006)
How to Give a Good Colloquium, John McCarthy (CMS Notes, 31(5), Sep 1999)
More good links from Ilse Ipsen

The Claremont Libraries

In addition, the Claremont Colleges Library website has many useful links to online material, including the library catalog, electronic journals, and other electronic databases.