Opinions, Lists and Miscellanea

Some math books I recommend:

• Introduction to Smooth Manifolds - J. M. Lee
• Elliptic Tales - A. Ash, R. Gross
• Complex Analysis - R. Busam, E. Freitag
• A History of Complex Dynamics - D. S. Alexander
• Iteration of Complex Functions - A. F. Beardon
• Mathematics of the 19th Century Volume 2 - A. N. Kolmogorov, A. P. Yushkevich
• Mathematical Apocrypha - S. G. Krantz
• A Mathematician's Survival Guide: Graduate School and Early Career Development - S. G. Krantz

Some math books/papers I am reading (or pretending to read):

• Lectures on Quasiconformal Maps - L. Ahlfors
• Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces - B. Farb, R. Hain, E. Looijenga
• Univalent Functions and Teichmüller Spaces - O. Lehto
• Matings of quadratic polynomials - T. Lei

Recent acquisitions:

• Quantum Theory for Mathematicians - B. C. Hall
• Brownian Motion, Martingales and Stochastic Calculus - J-F. Le Gall
• Mathematical Gauge Theory - M. J. D. Hamilton
• Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds - J.G. Ratcliffe

Some math books I want to read (or have a passing interest in reading):

• Complex Dynamics and Renormalization - C. McMullen
• Quasiconformal Surgery in Holomorphic Dynamics - B. Branner, N. Fagella
• Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry - D. Joyce
• Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity - J. Baez, J. P. Muniain
• Hamilton's Ricci Flow - B. Chow, P. Lu, L. Ni
• Teichmüller Theory and Applications to Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics - John H. Hubbard

Non-math books on my reading list:

• Dune - F. Herbert
• Metamorphosis - F. Kafka
• The Call of Cthulu - H. P. Lovecraft

Songs I have enjoyed recently:

• GOD BOTHERER - HEALTH
• Slowing Down - Scarlet House
• This Could Be Anywhere In The World - Alexisonfire
• Deixa Acontecer - Grupo Revelação
• There, There - Radiohead

Links:

• The Mathematics Department at Brown University.
• The Geometry & Topology Seminar at Brown.
• The Mathematics and Statistics Institute of the University of São Paulo.
• The A5 Seminar Group at IME-USP.
• The Geometry and Mathematical Physics Workshop at IME-USP.
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• A Mathematician's Lament, by Paul Lockhart.
• Mathematics for Human Flourishing, by Francis Su.
• Mathematics Students Resource, by Dan Margalit.
• The Tau Manifesto, by Michael Hartl. Additionally, a list of formulas using \( \tau \) instead of \( \pi \).

Posts on math and other topics:

• Why generating functions are more natural than they may seem.

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