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Literature Review
- Reading journal papers: guidelines for beginners (Group access required to view)
- Good practices for a comprehensive literature review
Quick Links
- Useful Matplotlib commands
- Useful git and github commands
- Useful MayaVi commands
- Useful LaTeX commands
- Setting a virtual environment for Python in Ubuntu
Documentation
LaTeX must be used for preparing all documents including weekly reports, project reports, thesis and manuscripts. A large number of tutorials on LaTeX are easily available.
Creating publication quality plots
- In Python & Matplotlib
- In Matlab (old version from 2014)
Guidelines for creating and saving figures.
Recommended Reading
Books
- Electrodynamics of continuous media by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
- Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol-1,2 & 3 by Richard Feynman
- Special Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein
General articles
- Nature Methods Editorial, "So you're writing a paper". Nat Methods 14, 1115, 2017.
- George Gopen, Judith Swan, "The Science of Scientific Writing" , American Scientist, January 2018.
- Nature Career Column: "Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD" Recent PhD graduate Lucy A. Taylor shares the advice she and her colleagues wish they had received."