A Mathematician’s Survival Guide

[Andy Nguyen]

This is a reprint, with permission from the author, of Professor Peter Castazza’s brilliant article, “A Mathematician’s Survival Guide”. The preprint can be read in PDF form at Dr. Castazza’s own website, here. Not to be confused with a book by the same name by Professor Steven Krantz (the two professors together co-edited a book which is slated to appear soon, from the MAA, titled “The Psychology of the Mathematician”, where the present paper will appear).

http://www.xamuel.com/mathematicians-survival-guide/

 

[Daniel Duffy]

No mention of pencil and paper?

 

[MiloRambaldi]

IMO: Aside from some funny quotes, its full of partial truths, and gives a very distorted view of what its like to be an academic mathematician ...

 

[bigbadwolf]

IMO: Aside from some funny quotes, its full of partial truths, and gives a very distorted view of what its like to be an academic mathematician ...

Which cannot be said of the book by Steve Krantz, which is full of sensible advice for the (math) grad student.