My Favorite Links

• Discrete Math, Operations Research and Applied Probability
• General Mathematical Resources
• Academic Homepages
• Software Resources
• General References and Resources
• Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs
• Weather
• Books and Music
• Culinary Resources
• Movies and Entertainment
• Puzzles and Humor
• Sports
• Travel
• Search Engines

• Journals +, Links to Discrete Math Conferences, Links to Theo. Comp. Sc. Conferences, DMA-NET, GRAPH-NET,


• Combinatorics Resources, Geometry Resources, Combinatorial Catalogues, Discrete Object Server, Encylopedia of Sequences, Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Sequences,


• Diestel's Graph Theory Book (3rd ed.), Bondy and Murty's Graph Theory Book, Wilf's GeneratingFunctionology, Wilf's A = B, Ruskey's Combinatorial Generation, S.Jukna's Extremal Combinatorics, Z.Tuza's Graph Coloring Survey, Prisner on Intersection Graphs, László Lovász's Lecture Notes,


• Doug West's Open Problems, Open Problems Project in Discrete Geometry, BCC Open Problems, Jensen & Toft's Graph Coloring Problems, Stephen Locke's Unsolved Problems, Xuding Zhu's Open Problems, Bojan Mohar's Open Problems, Zsolt Tuza's Unsolved Problems, A. Schrijver's Open Problems,


• INFORMS OR/MS Resources, NEOS Optimization Resources, Stochastic Programming Resources, Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming Glossary, Counterexamples in Math Programming, Interesting sites in OR, Tutorial on Integer Programming, A.Schrijver's Advanced Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimization, A.Schrijver's Combinatorial Optimization, Vanderbei's Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions,


• Theoretical Computer Science on Web, Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures, Stony Brook Algorithm Repository, Compendium of NP Optimization problems, D. Johnson's Challenges for TCS, D.P.Williamson's Approximation Algorithms lectures, M.Goeman's Algorithms notes, J.Hastad's Algorithm's notes,


• Probability Resources, Entropy Resources, Random Sampling with Markov Chains, Kolmogorov Complexity Resources, Doyle & Snell's Random Walks and Electric Networks, A.Barvinok's Geometric Measure Concentration lectures, Probabilistic Graphical Models,


• UIUC Math Seminars, UIUC Combinatorics Seminar, UIUC CS Theory Seminar, UIUC Complex Systems Seminar,

• MathSciNet, Web of Science, CiteSeer, e-Prints, Math Abstracts, UIUC Library, UIUC Math Library, Electronic Library, The Mathematics Survey, JSTOR, Journals +,


• MathWorld Dictionary, Handbook of Mathematical Functions (alternate), Math tables and formulas, Math Functions, Common Probability Distributions, World of Mathematical Equations, Prime Pages,


• MIT's OpenCourseWare, Free Math Books, Olympiad Problems,


• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, History of Math Terminology, History of Math Symbols, Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics, Euler Archive,


• Mathematics in Art and Architecture, M.C.Escher, Fomenko's Mathematical Impressions, Escher's Lithographs, John Sullivan's Mathematical Images, Mathematical Sculptures - Bathsheba.com, Context Free - fractal pictures, Musical Algorithms,


• MAA Student sites - Undergraduate Students & Graduate Students, AMS Student sites - High School Students & Undergraduate Students & Graduate Students, Mathematical Sciences Careers,


• Chance - quantitative literacy, Math in Daily Life, Resources for Math in Daily Life, Math Forum, Applications of Mathematics, Mathematics Awareness Month,


• The Vega Science Trust, Planet Math, Math Atlas, Jim Loy's Mathematics Page, Math Websites, Math Directory, FAQ in Physics,


• Mathematics and Science, selected articles on Mathematics, Math in Media - monthly survey, Math Forge, MathPuzzle.com, MathGames, MathTrek, del.icio.us Math Tags, technorati.com Math Tags,


• AMS, INFORMS, SIAM, PhDs.org,

• Noga Alon, Jozsef Balogh, Alexander Barvinok, Fan Chung, Ehud Friedgut, Alan Frieze, Zoltan Furedi, Timothy Gowers, Jeong-Han Kim, Alexandr Kostochka, Michael Krivelevich, Laszlo Lovasz, Jiri Matousek, Oleg Pikhurko, Fred Roberts, Joel Spencer, Benny Sudakov, Tibor Szabo, Tom Trotter, Jacques Verstraete, Van Vu, Doug West, Herbert Wilf, Doron Zeilberger,


• Shabbir Ahmed, Dimitris Bertsimas, Vasek Chvatal, Bill Cook, Michel Goemans, Sheldon Jacobson, James Orlin, Andrzej Ruszczynski, Nick Sahinidis, Alexander Schrijver, David P. Williamson,


• Sanjeev Arora, Jeff Erickson, Anupam Gupta, Sariel Har-Peled, Bruce Hajek, Mark Jerrum, Ravi Kannan, Sriram Pemmaraju, R. Ravi, Alistair Sinclair, Eva Tardos, Vijay Vazirani, Santosh Vempala,


• David Aldous, Rick Durrett, Svante Janson, Dana Randall, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, J. Michael Steele, Michel Talagrand, Prasad Tetali,


• G J Chaitin, Paul Vitanyi,

• Davin Milun's UNIX links, UNIX command overview, Commonly used Unix commands, UNIX tutorials & FAQ,


• TeX Resources, TeX FAQ, LaTeX tutorials, The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX, Hypertext Help with LaTeX, Wilkins' Getting Started with LaTeX, LaTeX tricks, Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX, Graphics and Colour with LaTeX


• Prosper - Home, Prosper User's Guide, Prosper Links, Latex & Prosper, Prosper Tutorial, Prosper Styles, Beamer - Home, Beamer User's Guide, Beamer Tutorial,


• FIG graphics, Xfig user manual, IPE, Inkscape, Asymptote, gpic, Graph Paper Generator,


• WinEdt, LED, LyX


• Free Latex Fonts, TeX fonts sampler, TeX fonts, Fonts for the screen,


• Web Developer's Handbook, Web Style Guide, HTML barebones reference, HTMLsource tutorials, Webpage tutorials, HTML helper, NCSA's HTML guide, HTML 4 specification, HTML Tags, HTML characters, HTML color codes, XHTML specification, Javascript + Perl + CGI tutorials, CSS Tutorials, Button maker,


• Math in HTML, TtH - TeXtoHTML, HEVEA, Hermes LaTeX2HTML, LaTeX2HTML user's manual, LaTeX2HTML discussion, PDF conversion,


• PuTTY, OpenSSH ,


• COIN, BARON, SYMPHONY, GNU LP kit, OCTAVE, AXIOM, MAXIMA, YACAS,

• Bartleby meta-site, About.com, InfoPlease, Answers.com, Able2Know, MetaFilter - search, Encyclopedia.com, Questia, Wikipedia, CIA Fact Book, Web MD,


• Meta-Dictionary, Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, Etymological Dictionary, Spell Check, Quotations Page, Rap Dictionary,


• Common Errors in English, Guide to Grammar&Style, Elements of Style,


• Philosophy Resources, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Resources for Contemporary Philosophy, Resources for Cognitive Science, A Miniature Library of Philosophy,


• Museum of Online Museums, The Artchive, PhotoMuse.org, Great Buildings, Great Public Places,


• Mathematics in Art and Architecture, M.C.Escher, Fomenko's Mathematical Impressions, Escher's Lithographs, John Sullivan's Mathematical Images, Mathematical Sculptures - Bathsheba.com, Context Free - fractal pictures, Musical Algorithms,


• Unilang.org, Rosetta Project, Enthnologue, Ancient Scripts,


• Ancient Man, World Civilizations, World Heritage sites, Electronic Cultural Access Initiative,


• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century, A History of the International Date Line, My selected news articles on history,


• Digital South Asia Library, SARAI, Indus Valley Civilization, Kamat's Potpourri, Kashmiri Resources,


• Virtual Religion Index, BBC-Religions of the World, Religion Statistics,


• Conversion Tools, How Stuff Works, Ars Technopaedia, The Vega Science Trust, FAQ in Physics,


• Global Warming,


• The Straight Dope, Hoaxbusters, Snopes,

• Yahoo, BBC, CNN, IHT, Economist, NYT, Washington Post, Guardian,


• Samachar.com, Indian Express, Times of India, Frontline, Outlook, Himal, Hoot, Reporting People,


• UIUC news, News Gazette - Champaign, Daily Illini -Champaign, Orlando Sentinel, WCIA-Champaign, WFTV-Orlando,


• SciTech Daily, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, Technology Review, The Vega Science Trust, Edge, Science Blog, Sci Scoop, Slashdot, Schneier's Crypto-Gram, My selected news articles on science,


• Math Forge, MathPuzzle.com, MathGames, MathTrek, del.icio.us Math Tags, technorati.com Math Tags, Ars Mathematica, Dr. Z's Opinions, My selected news articles on math,


• Arts & Letters Daily, P. T. Daily Review, Arts Journal, Time, Slate, New Yorker, Salon, TLS, London Review of Books, Hindu's Literary Review, McSweeney, Book Forum, Boston Review, Paris Review, Georgia Review, The Sun, The Little Mag, Persimmon, Bomb, The Atlantic, My selected news articles on books,


• Kuro5hin, Chowk, 3quarksdaily, Crooked Timber, The Valve, Amardeep Singh's Blog, Kitabkhana, Left2Right, Bookslut, LitKicks, LitBlog Co-op, The Elegant Variation, Identity Theory, The Map Room, Cosmic Variance, BoingBoing,

• Weather.com, Wunderground, Accuweather, UIUC weather, National Weather Service,

• UIUC library, Champaign Library, Urbana Library,


• Questia, Lynch's Literary Resources, Modern Word, Today in Literature, Words Without Borders, Wired for Books, Forbidden Books,


• Sunday Book Review, NYT -Books, L.A. Times - Books, Salon - Books, TLS, Washington Post - Book World, Guardian Books, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Hindu's Literary Review, Identity Theory, New Yorker - Critics, Book Forum, The Atlantic -Books,


• Boston Review, Paris Review, Georgia Review, The Little Mag, Persimmon, Bomb,


• Meta Critic, Complete Review, The Compulsive Reader, Reviews of Books .com , BookCrossing.com, StoryCode.com, Lists of Bests, news articles -- del.icio.us ,


• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Twentieth-century Poetry in English, Poets' Corner, Poets.org, Anthologies and Complete Poems, Emule's Poetry Archives, Poetry-Archive, Represetative Poetry Online, Poetry Previews,


• NYPL digital gallery, Internet Public Library, Project Gutenberg, Great Books, Online Books Page, Bibliomania, Collected Works of Shakespeare,


• Shopzilla, BookFinder.com, Booksprice.com, BookFinder4U.com, AllBookStores.com, BestWebBuys.com,


• Amazon Books, Barnes and Noble, Quantum Books, A1 books,


• Abebooks, Albiris, Powells, Scholar's Bookshelf, Hamilton Books, Daedalus Books,


• Pandora - Music Genome Project, Song Facts, Rare Music and CDs, Musical Algorithms, (some) Favorite Singer-Songwriters,

• Food411, Food Links, Chowhound, NPL's Culinary Guide, Food Resources @ Carnegie,


• Cook's Thesaurus, FoodReference.com, Food Storage Information, Tropical Fruit Database, Spice Pages, Etiquette Guide,


• Western Food Timeline, Centre for the History of Food and Drink @ Adelaide, Anthropology of Food - Bibliography,


• Slow Food Planet, Global Gourmet's Destinations, Sally's Ethnic Cuisines, Road Food,


• Farmer's Markets in Illinois, Farmers Markets in US,


• Leite's Culinaria, Gastronomica, Salon - Food, Slate - Travel&Food, Guardian - Food Monthly, L.A. Times - Food, Washington Post - Food&Dining, NYT - Dining,


• RecipeSource.com, Epicurious.com, BBC Food Recipes, Asian Recipe Sources, Sally's Place,


• All About Soups, The Cookie Tin,


• ndtvcooks.com - Indian, desicookbook.com - Pakistani, Kashmiri Cooking, Koshur Saal,


• Korean Feast, Korean Kitchen, Cook Korean,


• Kasma's Thai Cooking, Singapore Recipes, Thai Table, Sushi,


• Congo Cookbook, African Cookbook, Creole and Cajun Recipes,


• Culinary Books news articles

• Rottten Tomatoes, MRQE, Meta Critic, Roger Ebert, NYT, FilmCritic.com ,


• IMDB, AllMovie.com, FilmSite.org, TV.com, Au Cinema, ForeignFilms.com, Lists of Bests,


• Sense of Cinema, Masters of Cinema, Strictly Film School,


• Upper Stall, Lutgendorf's Indian popular cinema, Indian Cinema Database, UCLA's Indian Cinema, Bollywood Database, Satyajit Ray,


• Buzz's C-U Event Calendar, Hub's C-U Event Calendar , UIUC Music Events , Illini Union Events, Assembly Hall, Krannert Center, Virginia Theatre, The Station Theatre, Boardman's Art Theatre, Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, Harvest Moon Drive-In, Rentertainment,

• Olympiad Problems, Jim Loy's Puzzle Page, Alan and Danny's Puzzle page, Erich's puzzle place, Sillke's Puzzles, Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Math Games, Rec.Puzzles, Nick's Mathematical Puzzles, Math problems for young, [wu:riddles],


• Click Mazes, Logic Mazes,


• Mechanical Puzzle World, Tavern Puzzles, Unlces Metal Puzzles, Wire Puzzles, more Mechanical puzzles, Puzzle Sculptures,


• Optical Illusions, Sandlot Science Illusions,


• Comics.com, Ucomics.com, Cagle's Professional Cartoonist's Index, Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert, Peanuts, Piled Higher & Deeper, Toothpaste for Dinner - drawings,


• Bloom County, Amar Chitra Katha, Calvin and Hobbes' Magical World, Lambiek Comiclopedia, The Comics Curmudgeon,


• Math Humor Page, Bulwer-Lytton, Annals of Improbable Research, Aardman.com, Zug - Pranks, HumourNet,

• ESPN, Sportsline, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Sports, Ben Maller,


• Virtual Library of Sport, BBC Sports, Khel, Cricket, Sporting Pundit,

• Rand McNally, Mapquest, Google Maps,


• Amtrak, Greyhound, Airline Sites, Airport Status, Flight Status,


• SideStep, Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Priceline, Hotwire, RentalCars.com ,



• CU-MTD, Visitors Guide to Urbana-Champaign, Chicago Trip Planner, Illinois DOT,


• Champaign Airport, Bloomington Airport, Lincolnland Express Shuttle, Illini Shuttle, Baldwin Shuttle, Suburban Express,

• Google, Dogpile, MSN, Teoma, Mooter, Clusty, Scirus, Google Scholar,


• Open Directory Project, Google Directory, About.com, Answers.com, Able2Know, MetaFilter - search,


• AnyWho, Switchboard, Infospace, Lycos, BBB,