Open source links

• The Linux operating system: http://www.linux.org
• The Ubuntu distribution of Linux: http://www.ubuntu.com
• The Mozilla project: http://www.mozilla.org
• Wikipedia: a free web encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.org
• The TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org and the TUG showcase http://www.tug.org/texshowcase

Mathematical links

• The arXiv preprint archive: http://arxiv.org
• The European Mathematical Society: http://www.euro-math-soc.eu
• The Bachelier Finance Society: http://www.bachelierfinance.org
• The Bernoulli Society: http://isi.cbs.nl/bs.htm
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu
• The Erdős number project: http://www.oakland.edu/enp
• An efficient machine for finding research papers and books: http://scholar.google.com
• Various information about mathematical finance: http://www.mathfinance.de
• Ten signs a claimed mathematical breakthrough is wrong
• Videos from the plenary talks at the ICM 2006

Interesting articles on the financial crisis

• Steven Shreve: Don't Blame The Quants
• Philip Protter: The Financial Meltdown
• Darrell Duffie: Derivatives and Mass Financial Destruction
• Confessions of a risk manager
• Steven Shreve: Did faulty mathematical models case the financial fiasco?
• David Murphy: The causes of the credit crunch: a backwards look?

Interesting articles on compressed sensing

• Jordan Ellenberg: Fill in the blanks: using math to turn lo-res datasets into hi-res samples, Wired, March 2010
• Terence Tao: Compressed sensing and single-pixel cameras