Edinburgh University - Graduate School of Mathematics

Advice to a young mathematician (from Michael Atiyah, Bela Bollobas, Alain Connes, Dusa McDuff and Peter Sarnak), in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics.
Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc. from A Mathematician's Miscellany, by J.E. Littlewood.

Most lecture rooms in JCMB have data projectors (although not necessarily a computer).
The Beamer LaTeX class is the favoured style sheet for creating presentations.
The Wikipedia entry for Beamer includes links to online tutorials.
Beamer guide.
Beamer by example.
A sample LaTeX input for a Beamer presentation, and the corresponding sample PDF output. This sample uses minimal Beamer features. The file needs to be compiled with pdflatex. It is possible to include pre-existing (e.g. scanned) PDF files, such as the files kirby.pdf, kirbsieb.pdf on page 21, and sieben.pdf on page 54.
Note that it is possible to crop and rotate PDF files using Adobe Acrobat Professional, by means of "Documents - Crop Pages" and "Documents - Rotate Pages".
In order to print Beamer slides on paper with 2 slides on each sheet, include the lines
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
in the preamble.
Advice on giving a good Powerpoint/Beamer presentation.
The problem with Powerpoint (and Beamer).

Generally, PE1408 and T11 are useful classmarks. English usage: PE1460
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Handbook of writing for the mathematical sciences by N. Higham.
The student's guide to writing: spelling, punctuation and grammar by J. Peck and M. Coyle.
Robert Barrass, Scientists Must Write: A Guide to Better Writing for Scientists, Engineers and Students (Routledge Study Guides, 2002) -->T11 Bar [JCM Library + others]
Vernon Booth, Communicating in Science: Writing a Scientific Paper and Speaking at Scientific Meetings (CUP, 1993) --> Q223 Boo. [Darwin Library + others]
A. Northedge, J. Thomas, A. Lane & A. Peasgood, The Sciences Good Study Guide (OUP, 2004) --> LB2395 Sci. [JCM Library + others]
Janice R. Matthews, John M. Bowen & Robert M. Matthews, Successful Scientific Writing (CUP, 2000) --> R119 Mat. [Darwin + others]
Heather Silyn-Roberts, Writing for Science and Engineering: Papers, Presentations and Reports (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000) --> T11 Sil [JCM Library]

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