Opinions, Lists and Miscellanea

Some math books I recommend:

• Introduction to Smooth Manifolds - John M. Lee
• Elliptic Tales - Avner Ash, Robert Gross
• Complex Analysis - Rolf Busam, Eberhard Freitag
• A History of Complex Dynamics - Daniel S. Alexander
• Iteration of Complex Functions - Alan 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 I am reading (or pretending to read):

• Lectures on Quasiconformal Maps - L. Ahlfors
• Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces - B. Farb, R. Hain, E. Looijenga

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):

• Riemannian Holonomy Groups and Calibrated Geometry - Dominic Joyce
• Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity - John Baez, Javier P. Muniain
• Hamilton's Ricci Flow - Bennet Chow, Peng Lu, Lei Ni
• Teichmüller Theory and Applications to Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics - John H. Hubbard

Non-math books on my reading list:

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

Songs I have enjoyed recently:

• Apesar de Você - Chico Buarque
• La Desesperación y la Calma - ttemplos
• Man Proposes, God Disposes - Sprain
• Duvet - Böa
• Dead! - My Chemical Romance

Links:

• The Mathematics Department at Brown University.
• The Geometry & Topology Seminar at Brown.
• The AMS New England Graduate Student Conference 2024, held 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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