Links:
Casson's three lectures on Casson handles: I include a book scan here since this may be hard to find. Casson's Three Lectures
Fun: Here is a fun problem to stump your friends with.
Is 2^n root(2) mod 1 dense in [0,1]?
Miscellaneous writing:
Exponential families (and the Gaussian dist.) are determined by a few points.
Verification of some details in Schwarz' original proof of the BIC