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“Most of the time I'm just sitting there, in an almost detached manner, thinking, 'Well, here's another day's wastebasket full of paper. Nothing's come through. Maybe another day. Maybe I should stay up tonight and try some more.' I stay up nights when my wife and children have gone to sleep. Over and over again I keep working at it, trying to understand something which after months or even years turns out to be so simple that I should have seen it in the first ten minutes. Why does it take so long? Why haven't I done ten times as much as I have? Why do I bother over and over again trying the wrong way when the right way was staring at me in the face all the time? I don't know.” Herbert Robbins (American mathematician (1915 – 2001))(interviewed by Warren Page (interview reproduced in the book Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews) )
The blogs, pages, books that I have enjoyed reading are listed below.
(Humor) Rabbit's PhD Thesis and Lion's Watch Repair Business
"The PhD Grind" by Prof. Phill Guo, USCD [Candid Discussion with Prof. Guo]
(Talk)"15 pieces of advice I wish my PhD advisor had given me" by Jim Kurose
"A Survival Guide to a PhDAdvice to (prospective) grad students" by Vivek Haldar
"How to read an engineering research paper" by Prof. William G. Griswold CSE, UC San Diego
How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
Blogs by Prof. Matt Might, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Harvard Medical School
(Talk)"Tips on writing papers with mathematical content" by John N. Tsitsiklis, MIT
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