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How Successful Mathematicians Work
I have found (hat tip: Yuri Kryakin) a great interview in Russian with Ivan Panin, where he reminesces, inter alia, about his teacher, a prominent mathematician Andrei Suslin and the way he works. T… more →
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How Successful Mathematicians Work
Successful Researcher wrote 4 weeks ago: I have found (hat tip: Yuri Kryakin) a great interview in Russian with Ivan Panin, where he remines … more →
The Most Important Quality for a Working Mathematician
Successful Researcher wrote 4 weeks ago: According to Sir Michael Atiyah, the most important quality for a working mathematician is the abili … more →
blossomed rose in a desert land
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haran5533 wrote 3 months ago: I just read the autobiography of sir Richard branson, i was impressed a lot by reading that. I also … more →
List of 100 as a Thinking Tool
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dorai wrote 4 months ago: Last week, I was looking at an article about thinking titled – Tackle Any Issue with a List of … more →
Free Blackberry Curve, a step above the iPhone 3G S
Thomas More' wrote 5 months ago: Recently I was asked by my fourteen year old daughter for a cell phone. As it is I pay well near two … more →
Hunting Down the Old References
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Successful Researcher wrote 6 months ago: While writing the research papers one quite often needs to get back to the full texts of old (pre-In … more →
How Much Passion Do You Need to Succeed in Science?
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Successful Researcher wrote 6 months ago: This very interesting and very controversial issue is discussed here, here and here. The discussion … more →
How to Choose a Research Topic
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Successful Researcher wrote 6 months ago: Choosing a research problem to work on is a tough decision to make, and the relevant advice is rathe … more →
Academic Time Management
Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: As usual, there is a great advice on the subject from Terence Tao. See also a paper in the Science C … more →
Academic Networking: on the Network and beyond
Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: Phil Agre’s Networking on the Network contains plenty of great advice on academic networking … more →
Advice for the (Would-Be) Graduate Students
Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: A great collection of advice and links on the subject is here. For the (prospective) graduate studen … more →
Do You Have to Be a Genius to Do Great Science?
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Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: Apparently the jury is still out on this issue but the links below provide some encouragement: Teren … more →
How to Succeed in Science
Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: I have recently come across two papers on the subject (addressed primarily to the biomedical scienti … more →
Ten simple rules: career advice from P.E. Bourne et al.
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Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students Selecting a Postdoctoral Position (correction is here) Gettin … more →
What They Don't Teach You in Graduate School
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Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: This is a series of four articles at Inside Higher Ed by David E. Drew and Paul Gray: Part I Part II … more →
Michael Nielsen: Principles of Effective Research
Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: Michael Nielsen: Principles of Effective Research See also his blog for more career advice. … more →
New Media Studies, Unmoored
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dbrabham wrote 8 months ago: It’s a weird title for a post, I know, but you’ll see what I mean below. Unmoored is wh … more →
Career Advice from the Nobel Prize Winners
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Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: S. Weinberg: Scientist: Four golden lessons R.P. Feynman: A Letter to a Former Student (more advic … more →
How to Do Great Science: You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
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Successful Researcher wrote 8 months ago: Richard Hamming in his famous talk You and Your Research offers superb advice on how to do great sci … more →
