Links

Links useful to you

Lecture lists for the Mathematical Tripos.
Cambridge Term and Full Term dates.
Trinity Maths Society. Talks essentially every week in Term, Monday at 2030 in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity. A great way to unwind after listening to people talking about Maths and writing it down all day by listening to people talk about Maths and not having to write it down. Do come along.
Piers Bursill-Hall’s web-page. Perhaps if I link to it, it might encourage him to bring it out of 1998 into the modern world of not-written-in-Microsoft-Word-98.
For those of you still struggling to find your way around CMS, (including those of you who have been here so long you ended up becoming PhD students), I offer the following:
- Plan of the CMS, with the meeting rooms marked. Pavilion A is also known as the Core, and MR19 is usually known as the Potter Room; it also is Pavilion B’s main common room.
- For those of you with Raven access, this is the room booking system, its main use being seeing which rooms have been booked, for lectures, seminars, examples classes, etc..

Terry Tao has a bad habit of posting interesting and long summaries of advanced topics on his blog.
For applied mathematicians, Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates will quickly become the most useful page on Wikipedia. (I claim no responsibility for the accuracy of the formulae therein, however. Verify them in G.K. Batchelor's book.)
The Mathmo Test. Every self-respecting mathmo takes this. (My score is a mere 49/67, since you ask.)
Online AQ (from Wired). You should probably also take this. You'll understand why after Googling, if you don't read the page. Note: from the OED:
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Cricket.
intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball).

The Jargon File. You need to read this if you want to understand anything about what hackers are and what they are interested in. (Which is not breaking into computer systems and stealing stuff, no matter what the media would have you believe.)
If you have any interest in politics of any kind (but particularly academic), read the Microcosmographia Academica. Described as “True at levels surpassed by almost no other document” by one commenter, it may look rather familiar to those of you who have encountered Yes, Minister. (There is a reason for this.)
Having encountered the space-cadet keyboard (and seen the Wikipedia article, which at least has a picture of the thing), and being a geek, you want one of your own. Since practically no keyboards these days have seven modifier keys, improvisation is required. this page describes one (Mac-only) method, with some ingenious ideas.

This section is essentially a pile of useful bookmarks I have left on the Web.