The Polynomial Method (MATH 745) Homepage

Readings

• Our main resource for the course is Noga Alon's Combinatorial Nullstellensatz.
  Many other important papers may be found at Noga Alon's homepage.

• One may find many manuscripts deposited here, arXiv.org

• The American Mathematical Society maintains an important database, MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews

Advice on writing mathematics

• Writing a Math Paper. From MIT Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics
• How to Write Mathematics, by Paul Halmos.

Articles to read about giving a mathematics talk

• P. Halmos' "How to Talk Mathematics"
  
• Terry Tao's "Talks are not the same as papers"
  
• Jordan Ellenberg's "Tips on giving talks"
  
• Bryna Kra's "Giving a talk"
  
• William Ross' "How to give a good 20-minute math talk"
  
• John McCarthy's "How to Give a Good Colloquium"
  

TeX Resources

• TeXShop (Mac) or MikTeX (Windows).
• Grätzer's Math into LaTeX web resources. Includes PDF Short Course and Symbol Table.

• Detexify will help you find symbols.
• One page symbol guide.
• Simple documentation about Beamer can be found at Beamer by Example.