Links I like

• !!!***Counterexamples in quantum information***!!!

Great reference!!!

• History of the word ``Martingale"

• Mustard watches

• Zorn's Lemma

• 2024 Abel Prize laureate Michel Talagrand is my hero!!

What an amazing mathematician with such an amazing story. 

• Quantum Computing for the Very Curious.

• David Deutsch is coming for our jobs!

And with interpretations of probability theory we can scam our ways back into employment. (A lovely application of philosophy: keeping academics employed!)

• Why Books Don't Work

• Paul Halmos's autobiography

• Yuri Manin: Mathematics as Methaphor: 

To convince you to read it, see also the brief review of this collection of essays by Timothy Gowers: Yuri Ivanovich Manin, An Extraordinary Mathematician.

• On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, William Thurston.

• Negative Probabilities, Richard Feynman

• The Two Cultures of Mathematics, Timothy Gowers: 

Understanding your mathematical biases can help you view your mathematical self more critically and consider whether you have unnecessary hang-ups which are holding you back.

• Reinventing Discovery: 

A great read promoting open science by one of the famed "Mike and Ike" duo. This isn't so much math as it is research in general, but, while its primary goal is to promote open science, it also serves as a great source of detailed examples of productive collaborations. 

• The early career section of the Notices of the AMS. 

• Get more stupider

• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming. 

I don't love everything here, but it's nice to read it anyway.