resources
This page lists some useful resources including publicly available books, monographs, video lectures, etc.
Books
- Probability: Theory and Examples by Rick Durret
- Measure Theory by Terrence Tao
- Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties by Robert Gray
- Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing by Robert Gray
- Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe
- Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization by Aharon Ben-Tal and Arkadi Nemirovski
- Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory by Stephen Boyd, Laurent El Ghaoui, E. Feron and V. Balakrishnan
- generatingfunctionology by Herbert Wilf
- A First Course in Information Theory by Raymond Yeung
- Lecture Notes on Network Information Theory by Abbas El Gamal, Young-Han Kim
- Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay
- Introduction to Queueing Theory by Robert Cooper
- Random Processes for Engineers by Bruce Hajek
- Concentration-of-measure inequalities by Gabor Lugosi
- Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by Karl Astrom and Richard Murray
- Feedback Control Theory by John Doyle, Bruce Francis and Allen Tannenbaum
- Mathematical Control Theory by Eduardo Sontag
- Lecture Notes on Mathematical Systems Biology by Eduardo Sontag
- Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems by Gerald Teschl
- Lectures in Mathematics hosted by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
- Lecture notes on stochastic models in systems biology by Peter Swain
Scientific Writing
- Mathematical Writing by Donald Knuth, Tracy Larrabee and Paul Roberts
- On Writing by Terrence Tao
- Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing by Dimitri P. Bertsekas
- How to Write a Paper by Oded Goldreich
- On Speaking, Writing and Inspiration by Mark Ptashne
- On Learning to Write by Mark Ptashne
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- The Grammer According to West by Douglas West
- Writing a Control Paper by Joao Hespanha
Video lectures
- Systems Biology by Uri Alon
- Systems Medicine by Uri Alon
- Asymptotics and perturbation methods by Steven Strogatz
Visualizations
- data in the spotlight - Gabriela Plucinska’s blog has a variety of resources on scientific communication and data visualization.
- Fundamentals of data visualization by Claus Wilke.
- Color Brewer provides color advice for cartography. Useful resource in picking color scheme for a figure.
- iWantHue for nice color palettes.
- Color Usage Research Lab has several useful resources on usage of colors for graphics.
Miscellaneous
- Productivity tips by Matt Might
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- Creative thinking by Claude Shannon
- Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught by Gian-Carlo Rota