Some of my Favorite Web Sites -- mostly mathematical

• MacTutor History of Math & Famous Curve Index (The BEST !!!): Curves, mathematician birthdays, history

  
  

• Contemporary Calculus Text : Chapters 0 - 4
  
• Contemporary Calculus Text : Chapters 5 - 14

  
  

• Exploring Multivariable Calculus -- great 3D graphers: by Paul Seeburger
• 2D, 3D and ODE graphers: by David Lippman

  
  

• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics (MathWorldTM) : 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.

• Some Mathematical Biographies : From Bellevue College
  
  
• First known uses of some Math Words
• First known uses of some Math Symbols

  
  

• Mathematical Glossary: Glossary of mathematical terms
• Mathematical Terminology for Calculus

  
  

• Wolfram Alpha -- great online symbolic calculator (even Calculus and DE and ...)

  
  

• 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 : From SUNY at Buffalo

  
  

• Mathematical Association of America
  
• American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges

  
  

• Search Pi Page: Is your birthday in PI? Search the first 100 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 2003: Math & Art

  
  

• 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 Ð passing through a focus, passing between the foci, and passing ÒoutsideÓ 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 :

  
  

• Some Calculus Demos : Check out the conic section constructions, sweet infinite series, and visualizing volumes

  
  

• 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?

  
  

• DPGraph : "Dynamic Photorealistic 3D Graphing Software for Math and Physics visualization." Beautiful 3D animations and the software is only $10. (But not for the Mac.)

  
  

• VoroGlide download : Voronoi diagram generator

  
  

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