[winxordie]

You should read more of Chazelle or Tarjan; they both write their maths very clearly.

Thank you for an amazing series of faux-blog posts on this thread. As an undergraduate hoping to enter math research, these have been invaluable to me. I can't upvote you enough times.

[HilbertSpace]

Sure, Tarjan is a good mathematician. Maybe CS wants to claim him, but math should keep him for themselves! And the math of operations research -- Cinlar, Nemhauser, Kuhn, etc. -- is good math.