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Mathematics Links:
Mathematics-related information and web sites



BCC Mathematics Links

Mathographies: biographical sketches of selected famous mathematicians.


Mathematical Snippets: short descriptions of a few notable mathematical ideas and results.



Other Mathematics Links

MacTutor History of Math & Famous Curve Index: Curves, mathematician birthdays, history


Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (MathWorld) : The web's most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities.


Math Words: First uses of mathematical words


Mathematical Glossary: Glossary of mathematical terms


Math Quotation Server : Quotations by mathematicians about mathematics and life


Biographies of Women Mathematicians : From Agnes Scott College
Biographies of Women Mathematicians : From Association for Women in Mathematics
Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics :


Search Pi Page: Is your birthday in PI? Search the first100 Million digits of Pi to find that or any other string of digits.
Search Pi Page: Is your name in PI? Search the first 4 Billion binary digits of Pi to find that or any other 10 character string.


The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences::Is your sequence of digits the beginning of a known sequence?


Math in the Movies Page : More than Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting, this page rates the mathematics and the films themselves for more than 30 movies.


Abstract Sculptures (involving mathematics): A collection of pointers to the works of several abstract sculptors. Helaman Ferguson is the best known, but they all have interesting works.


Math Awareness Month:


The Mandelbrot Explorer: Explore and magnify any part of the Mandelbrot set


Strange Wheels : What kind of a ride will you get with square wheels?


Acme Klein Bottles :Need a Klein bottle? This is the place.


Elliptical Billiard Tables : Nice animations of the behavior of a ball on an elliptical billiard table Ü passing through a focus, passing between the foci, and passing ñoutsideî the foci.
Polygonal Billiard Tables : Really nice applet to find the trajectory on a polygonal table. You can select the polygon and the starting path.


Maple Home Page
Maple Application Center


Voting : Expected Utility model -- pivot probability calculations.


Digital Michelangelo Project : Download a "fly around" of David. And much more.


Level Set Methods (Sethian at UC Berkeley) :


TerraServer-USA : This site lets you zero in on any location in the USA as either a topo map or an aerial photo. The data is from the U.S. Geological Survey


Anagrams : Dale T Hoffman = FDA Math Felon = Fond math flea = offhand male. What does your name equal?





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