Nikos StylianouNov 19, 2022
Clément Canonne

It's the "applications!" time of the year, so let me link to these insightful and oh-so-helpful (and witty) slides by Rocco Servedio on how to write a research statement academic positions and postdocs, from the 2021 Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop:
https://let-all.com/assets/slides/How-to-COLT-Rocco.pdf

Lots of good stuff, meaningful advice, and Herman Melville.
#academia #academicjobmarket #researchstatement #hermanmelville

Nov 18, 2022 at 9:32pmWeb
Show threadNalini JoshiNov 18, 2022
@ccanonne anyone who mentions Strunk and White #ElementsOfStyle and Herman Melville’s books and poems as #WritingTips has my attention…
Show thread⏚ Antoine Chambert-LoirNov 18, 2022
@monsoon0 @ccanonne do you manage to use Struck&White for your math writing? I bought it long ago but it mostly stays quiet on its shelf...
Show threadClément CanonneNov 19, 2022
@antoinechambertloir @monsoon0 for me it's mostly a book I try to read now and then, hoping to "absorb" it a little bit at a time. It's on my shelf, and semi-regularly I'll pick it up and go through it (it's small enough, that helps).
Show threadNalini JoshiNov 19, 2022
@antoinechambertloir @ccanonne I used it often when I was much younger and I recommend it to younger researchers in my group. Very happy to see it mentioned because I thought I was being a dinosaur in hanging on to something from long ago…
Show threadLow Rank JackNov 19, 2022
@monsoon0 @antoinechambertloir @ccanonne Same. You may also like this palatable vintage video series by Donald Knuth I mentioned here https://mathstodon.xyz/@lowrankjack/109288188445168978
Low Rank Jack (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Great text indeed @[email protected] On this matter, this book, a classic, is full of examples of what to write and not write. To be placed close to D. Knuth's "Mathematical writing" on any shelf. This related video by him is also vintagely wonderful https://youtu.be/mert0kmZvVM #writing #scientific #knuth #style

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Show threadbusterNov 19, 2022

@ccanonne @antoinechambertloir @monsoon0

Don Knuth mentioned S&W (but not Melville) in his 1987 course on Mathematical Writing. Some of it can be found on YouTube! And there are notes:

https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematical_writing.pdf