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Last updated : 12/01/2017

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Reunion Island

That's the place where I come from. Since many people ask me where it is, well, here is Reunion Island on a map.

Miscellaneous links (section bound to expand with time)

Images des Mathématiques : a website (in French) doing popularization of mathematics.
Interstices : a website (in French) doing popularization of computing sciences and applied mathematics.
Maths Matters, Apply It ! A collection of posters/flyers explaining some of the mathematics that surround us every day.
Maths Fun Facts : simple and easily communicable bits of mathematics.

Gian-Carlo Rota : Ten lessons I wish I had been taught.
Francis Su : The lesson of grace in teaching.
William Thurston : Of proof and progress in mathematics.
Tim Gowers : The two cultures of mathematics.
Terry Tao : What is good mathematics ? His blog, which contains a lot of interesting things.
Scott Aaronson : Ten signs a claimed mathematical breakthrough is wrong.
Robert Ash : Remarks on expository mathematics.
Paul Lockhart : A mathematician's lament.
Alexander Coward : Why I am not cancelling class tomorrow.
The webpage of Djalil Chafaï contains (at the very bottom) some nice quotations, and various interesting links.

Some of my favourite web comics.

• SMBC
  New rule for science journalism, How science reporting works, Landing on a comet, Fundamental particles, Great vs wealthy scientist, Mathematicians vs physicists, How academics call something boring, Mad sociologist, Handicapping, Optimist, pessimist and opportunist, What College is really about, Life of thought, Epic phrases, Hemmingway, A new level of cancer, Automatisation of work
• PhD Comics
  Postdoc appreciation, Job offer, How professors spend their time, Intellectual freedom, Brain on stick, 63% of internet readers will like this comic, Dating odds, Facebook, Relationship status, Happening outside, Average time spent writing one email, Allnighter, Deciphering Academese, Methodology translator, Life ambitions, Spring break, What you know vs how much you know about it, Your maths skills, Enrollment vs unemployment rate, More of the same, , What your brought to seminar, Interdiscipline
• XKCD
  Normal person vs scientist, Erdös, Fields arranged by purity, Correlation, Cell phones, Computer problems, Go to, Exploits of a mom, Not enough work, Random numbers, Code compiling, Real programmers, Updgrading and success, Ballmer peak, Nerd snipping, Floor tiles, Star watching, Christmas tree, Natural parenting, New car, Cemetery fun
• Others
    Spiked Maths
  Proofs, Complimentary angles, OCT 31 = DEC 25, Public perception of mathematicians, Telephone numbers
    Geek and poke
  How could this ever have worked ?, Developer's madness, Have you fixed the bug ?, Just fixed it, The art of bug fixing, Don't ask, Temporarily, Documentation,
    Dilbert
  Random number generator, Management and technology, Software requirements,
    The Oatmeal
  War in the name of atheism,
    Miscellaneous
  Your company's app vs Apple and Google products, Calvin and Hobbes on maths, Calvin and Hobbes on science, ... and I have no idea why,

Some serious ressources.
Encyclopedia of maths.
Mac Tutor history of maths archive.

A bit of fun.
The Journal of universal rejection.