My Links

• Audacity: a free audio recorder.
• Bibtex managers: bibdesk, jabref.
• Calculators (online): web 2.0, online,
• Emerald editor: a free multi purpose text editor.
• FileZilla: a free ftp client available on many platforms.
• Firefox: the true web browser.
• free forums.
• Gimp: the GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• basic git and ebook git for beginners
• LaTeX: LateX and its packages on CTAN:
- on Linux, you can use the teTex distribution. with emacs front-end editor.
- on Mac OS X, you can use the Texlive distribution with TexShop front-end editor, see Texlive guide.
- on Windows, you can use the MikTex distribution with TexnicCenter front-end editor.
LateX wikibook is a big source of examples and howto's: LateX WikibooK. Take a look at the exhaustive Latex Symbol list, the Beamer themes beamer themes, reference list latex.
• NeoOffice: a Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.
• Notepad++: a free source code editor for Windows.
• OpenOffice: a free and open productivity suite.
• R : a GNU statistical software highly popular (top 20) with its numerous R packages available on CRAN.
  - official documentation manuals, contributed documentation,
  - R wikibook: wikibook,
  - free online ebooks listed in the Big book of R. Some famous books: Efficient R programming , R packages, Advanced R, geocomputation with R,
  - R Style Guide or Coding Convention: Henrik Bengtsson, Google, Hadley Wickham,
  - R graphics: R graph library, original vizualisation from thinkR, From data to vizualisation, Elegant graphics for data analysis, Big book of R, Valoriser ses donnees avec R,
  - R Development platforms : BioConductor, OmegaHat, R-forge,
  - Actuarial websites: claim reserving book, blog of Arthur Charpentier,
  - What you can do with R! Task views,
  - seeking information Rseek, blogs on R such as R bloggers, a package for searching on CRAN or the web
  - Opinions on R : TidyverseSkeptic
• pdf: reduce pdf
• Thunderbird: a powerful mail browser.
• Tinn-R : an easy-to-use R editor with plenty of functionalities.
• You say math' soft? :
  - SAGE, an web-based open source math sofware like Maple or Mathematica,
  - Maxima and Scilab alternatives to the expensive Matlab,
  - SYMPHONY an open-source solver for mixed-integer linear programs

• Actuarial links: E. Valdez' links , CAS open source software , advices to write article/memoir in French
• Atlas of semantic: translation, lexicon,..., termes mathématiques,
• Chronology of mathematics: ChronoMath,
• Courses: Khan academy , MIT , open culture, UPMC, academic earth, UJF, onlinecoursepro, cours-assurance, datacorner, datacamp,
• Data on the web: a list of data websites, data publica, eurostat, dataverse.org, global terrorism database,
• Deregulation financiere: article CADTM [in French],
• Digits of irrational numbers: RJN's digits,
• English: common errors in English,
• Encyclopedia, econlib , Stanford, UTM,
• Gapminders: statistics and graphs on health and wealth of Nations
• Glossary of insurance terms: My Stock Market Power , IRMI , Insurance Information Institute ,
• Glossary of financial terms: New York Times on the web - glossary,
• Help on French: Banque de dépannage linguistique du Québec,
• How to talk: some advises on presentation,
• Insurance statistics: Atlas Magazine,
• Job search: career cast, monster, keljob, cadremploi, neuvoo,
• Job in mathematics and computer science Zoom metiers in French
• Maps : light pollution map, IGN geoportail,
• Mathematical functions: NIST Digital Library of Math Functions, Abramowitz and Stegun: Handbook of Math Functions.
• Math resources: WolframMathWorld, Matrix Reference Manual,
• Metier assurance: observatoire de l'assurance,
• Mortality databases: Human Mortality Database, Human cause-of-death Database, Canada province-level database, French department-level database,
• Population: pyramid, mortality HMD,
• Prime numbers: the first 15 000 000 prime numbers,
• Ph.D.: reasons to fail, not to do, to do,
• Quantitative actuarial/finance library: the Quant-Press, Gloria Mundi, Math Fi, Risk Lab CH
• Random Number Generators: the pLab project,
• Some thoughts on Economic course: in French,
• Truth about the credit crisis.
• Wiki: Wikia, Citizendium, wikistat

• A worldwide association of newspapers: project syndicate,
• A French blog on finance: tradebourse,
• A geek news site: Slashdot.
• French presentations: Les Ernest.
• Ideas worth spreading: TED.
• Sur les universités: JFM.
• Science history: TIS.

• Hansjoerg Albrecher,
• Nicolas Baradel,
• Romain Biard,
• Alexandre Brouste,
• Arthur Charpentier,
• Areski Cousin,
• Marie Laure Delignette-Muller,
• Elena Di Bernadino,
• Madeleine-Sophie Deroche,
• Theodora Dupont Courtade,
• Olivier François,
• Olivier Gaudoin,
• Vincent Goulet,
• Yuri Goegebeur,
• Pierre-Olivier Goffard,
• Quentin Guibert,
• Armelle Guillou,
• Caroline Hillairet,
• Aymric Kamega,
• Nabil Kazi-Tani,
• Erwan Koch,
• Pierre L'Ecuyer,
• Jean Paul Laurent,
• Stéphane Loisel,
• Martin Maechler,
• Makoto Matsumoto,
• Etienne Marceau,
• Véronique Maume-Deschamps,
• Quentin Meunier,
• Xavier Milhaud,
• Claire Mouminoux,
• Frédéric Planchet,
• Alexandre Popier,
• Yahia Salhi,
• Kezhan Shi,
• Giorgio A. Spedicato,
• Marc Tchiboukdjian,
• Benoit Vettier,
• Guillaume Voisin,

• Annals of actuarial science,
• ASTIN Bull. (free),
• Belgian Actuarial Bull. (ceased),
• Bulletin Francais d'actuariat (free),
• European Actuarial Journal ,
• Geneva Risk and Insurance review ,
• Insurance: Mathematics and Economics,
• Journal of Actuarial Practice (ceased),
• Journal of Risk and Insurance ,
• North American Actuarial Journal,
• Scandinavian Actuarial Journal,
• Variance (free).
• The European Actuary (free).

Other journals

• JPS, see full list here
• JSS,

Actuarial awards

• Life LIFE section prize
• Non-life Hachemeister
• from private companies Lloyds of london, SCOR
• UK awards,

Online papers

• HAL, TEL,
• project euclid,
• arxiv Library,

Must-see videos

• A lesson of communication by Steve Jobs: here
• A lesson of English by Tony Blair and David Cameron: there.
• A lesson of French by Fabrice Luchini: ici
• A lesson of madness by Steve Ballmer: here
• A quel point le numérique révolutionne la vie: G. Berry