- Buffon's Needle - Paul Kunkel
An investigation of the problem: Consider a plane, ruled with equidistant parallel lines, where the distance between the lines is D. A needle of length L is tossed onto the plane. What is the probability that the needle intersects one or more lines?
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- Buffon's Needling Ants - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
The idea of estimating pi by randomly casting a needle onto an infinite plane ruled with parallel lines was first proposed by the naturalist and mathematician Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788). In recent years, computer
simulations have
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- Building Models of Surfaces - Joan Hoffman, Swarthmore College
Physical models to be used as aids in understanding 3-dimensional surfaces - some how-to pages for building surfaces that appear in multi-variable calculus, by Swarthmore College student Joan Hoffmann.
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- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) - U.S. Department of Commerce
The nation's economic accountant, preparing estimates that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy. Regional, national, and international data, articles, and products.
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- Bureau of Justice Statistics - U.S. Department of Justice
The BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Key statistics by topic; list of publications, with abstracts, many of
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- Bureau of Labor Statistics - Jo-Ann L. Yu
The BLS collects information on the U.S. labor force, the economy, etc. Includes "The Economy at a Glance," press releases with relevant statistics, timeseries of various data, regional data, various publications, and information about jobs in the bureau.
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- The Burr Puzzles Site - IBM
A Burr Puzzle consists of at least three rods intersecting each other at right angles. The most well-known type is the six piece burr where three sets of two rods intersect each other. This site lets you explore six piece burrs by selecting from a list
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- Bus Boarding and the Theory of Knots - Roy Lisker
This article is a humorous application of basic Knot Theory to the situations encountered when people are trying to board a bus in a great hurry. Their trajectories create braided patterns whicha are 'analyzed' with the help of the theory of knots.
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- Buses on Quantum Schedules - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Anyone who has waited for a bus in the city has probably casually observed that, after an inordinately long wait, two or three buses often come along at the same time. Mathematical models that simulate traffic flow confirm that bus bunching is a real
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- Business-Higher Education Forum - Business-Higher Education Forum
BHEF is an organization of Fortune 500 CEOs, prominent college and university presidents, and foundation leaders working to advance innovative solutions to education challenges in order to enhance U.S. competitiveness. BHEF addresses education issues
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- Business Mathematics - MAA Online
From the Mathematical Association of America's Basic Library List - a bibliography of articles (in print, not on the Web) on Business Mathematics: Basic Skills; Algebra and Finite Mathematics; Business Statistics; Business Calculus; Economics; Finance;
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- Business Statistics (BSAD 301) - L. H. Arjomand; School of Business, Clayton College & University
An online credit course (Georgia system) with lecture notes, Powerpoint slides, sample exam questions, course syllabus, projects, solutions to problems, mailing lists, statistics links, magazines/newspapers, library, FAQs, and a bulletin board. Lecture
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- Busyness Girl Mathematics - Maria H. Andersen, Muskegon Community College
Posts on this blog about technology for math courses have discussed Wolfram|Alpha and other websites for online instruction as well as for classroom use.
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- Butterfly Station - Manfred Ullman
Applets for exploring spirographs, pendula, the Mandelbrot set, and Lorenz attractors.
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- The Butterfly Theorem - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
Ten proofs (and a few variations) of the beautiful Butterfly theorem, with illustrations and remarks. Links to some generalizations: A Better Butterfly theorem, 2N-Winged Butterfly theorem, several pages on the Two Butterflies theorem. Several of these
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- Bytes of Science: An Internet Magazine - David S. Mazel, Ed.
An Internet magazine on science and engineering, with tutorials and introductory articles on various areas of science, math, or engineering. Articles include: A Basis for Functions: The Fourier Series; The Fourier Transform: The Frequency in a Waveform;
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- Byte Works, Inc.
Developers of the apps iPhone Calculator, a scientific/logic/conversion calculator; and techBASIC, which takes advantage of the iPod's, iPhone's, and iPad's built-in accelerometers, gyroscopes, or magnetometers to collect information, process it with
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- C26: Geometry - Scott Thatcher; Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
Syllabus for a Geometry course, with some solutions to problems in PDF format; Maple worksheets (version 4) for multi-variable calculus.
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- CAARMS, The Council for African and Americans in the Mathematical Sciences - Mathematics Dept., SUNY Buffalo
An organization that highlights current research by African-American researchers and graduate students in mathematics, strengthens the mathematical sciences by encouraging increased participation of African-Americans and members of other underrepresented
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- Cabri Conic Macros - Jim King, University of Washington
Nine Cabri Geometry II macros for constructing conics from various givens and for constructing certain features of given conics. Contains a documentation file.
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- Cabri Geometry: Classroom Resources - The Math Forum
The Math Forum's page of links at the Forum and on the Web to dynamic interactive geometry classroom resources for Cabri Geometry. Books and Web sites; Frequently Asked Questions; exploring the basics; workshops; excerpts from the journal abraCAdaBRI;
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- Cabri-géomètre - Jean-Marie Laborde
The French site for Cabri Geometry, the geometry software program. The site includes a brief history of the program, a list of new things on the site (see also Cabri-Java), Cabri product information, book and website references, and contact information.
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- Cabri Java Applets - Jen-chung Chuan
Well over one hundred applets based on Cabri drawings.
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- CabriJava - Jean-Marie Laugier; L'Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I)
Optique, électicité, mécanique. CabriHop: Une série de constructions d'optique géométrique et physique, niveau lycée et un peu +, à visiter en premier pour les paramétrages de votre navigateur,
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- Cabri Java Project/Projet Cabri-Java
Cabri-Java allows you to create dynamic geometric figures using Cabri and publish them as Java applets. In English and French.
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- Cabriology - Fréderic Louis
In Dutch: a website about the software Cabri Geometry, with tutorials, videos, pictures and more.
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- CA Classical Analysis (Front for the Mathematics ArXiv) - Univ. of California, Davis
Classical Analysis preprints, from the U.C. Davis front end for the xxx.lanl.gov e-Print archive, a major site for mathematics preprints that has incorporated many formerly independent specialist archives. Search by keyword or browse by topic.
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- CADalog.com
An AutoCAD CAD Shareware Clearinghouse, offering a collection of over 4,000 shareware programs for CAD engineers, designers, graphics people, etc. Also a very large free 2d and a minimal-cost 3d parts library with hard-to-find parts.
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- CAD/CAM Developer's Kit C Function Libraries - John Keklak
The CAD/CAM Developer's Kits support very fast and reliable algorithms for
boundary offset, area fill, pocketing and area booleans. The offset
algorithm is an alternative to the Voronoi approach, and in many real world
cases is much faster and reliable.
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- CADCOM: Committee for the Advancement of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics - Chris Rodger, Auburn University, USA (Chair)
An international committee formed by the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA) to present Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics in its best light to all interested people and agencies, including university administrations, industry,
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- CaEst 1.2 - Juan M. Lejarza
La primera versión modificada de un programa de Cálculo Estadístico. Abarca el cálculo de medias, varianzas, asimetría,
curtósis, índide de Gini, regresión de una o varias variables, cálculo
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- calc_reform - e-MATH/AMS, Math Forum
A discussion around reform of the curriculum and the teaching of calculus and linear algebra, including differential equations, a mix of theoretical issues and concrete practices. Read and search archived messages; and register to post to the discussions.
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- Calc 360 - Numerant, LLC
Calc 360 is a free, simple, and powerful calculator for your PC. Some of its main features include: adjustable precision, calculation history window, custom variables, loading and saving of calculations and more...
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- Calc 3D
Calculators for Windows 95/98/NT/XP designed to handle vectors, matrices, complex numbers, quaternions and coordinates. For point, line, plane, sphere, circle Calc 3D calculates distances, intersections, and some additional
information like volume and
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- Calcgate - Brette de la Houssaye, Eugene Kellogg, and Robert K. Tarquinio
A Matlab toolbox that calculates work, energy, and integral area from input of polynominal or Fourier series.
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- Calchemy Live! - Calchemy Software Inc.
Express the parameters of an equation in any convenient units of measure. Calchemy then checks the equation and parameters for dimensional consistency and makes all the necessary units conversions automatically. Categories include acceleration, angle,
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- Calc.Matthen.com - Matt Henderson
A webpage which allows users to manipulate their formula or plot it.
Supports differentiation and integration among other things.
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- Calculate the Distance Between Two Places - infoplease.com
How far is it from one place in the U.S. to another? As you type, this form automatically completes the names of populated places, schools, "locales," parks, islands, bars, lakes, reservoirs, bays, gaps, dams, glaciers, streams, wells, mines, bends, valleys,
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- Calculating Car Payments - Barbara Christopher
Lesson plan with the objectives of using a formula containing complex fractions and large exponents to calculate a monthly car payment, using the order of operations while putting such a formula into a scientific calculator, and seeing a very practical
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- Calculating the Volume of a Vase
- Web Feats Workshop II
Determine the volume of the vase pictured. The photograph shows the construction of the vase and that its height is 50 cm. Use the applet to find the coordinate values for the edge of the vase, and use the regression features of a graphing calculator
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- Calculation and the Chess Master - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
In 1912, J. B. Shaw wrote in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society: "The game of chess has always fascinated mathematicians, and there is reason to suppose that the possession of great powers of playing that game is in many features very much
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- calculator.com - Athera Corporation
Free access to online calculators to help you solve problems and answer questions in the home, office, and school. There are calculators for finance, business, and science, cooking, hobbies, and health. Some solve problems, some satisfy curiosity, and
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- Calculator Directory - ArsRef LLC
Commercial calculating software arranged by category. One page of free online calculators.
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- calculator.org - Flow Simulation Ltd.
A collection of calculator-related resources, including an online scientific
calculator, recommendations for hardware calculators, books about calculators, links to other online resources, and a free download of Calc98, a scientific,
engineering,
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- Calculators By Ken - Ken Prentice
Dozens of point-and-click (mouse-only) calculators available for purchase: acceleration, air flow, ANSI codes, area, atomic mass, BTU, calendars, calories, capacitance reactance, circles, circular angles, circular mils, cone, conveyor speeds, current
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- Calculators On-Line Center - Martindale's Reference Desk
Online software and Java applets that calculate quantities for a number of general and specific uses. Numerous "calculators" available for Code Translators, Distance/How Far is it?, Finance, Taxes, Grade Point Average, Logic & Syllogism, Navigation/GPS,
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- Calculators On-Line Center: Part II - Mathematics - Martindale's Reference Desk
Over 7,420 calculators for: Unit Conversion (Time, Distance, Length, Speed, Weight, etc.); Abacus; Basic Math; Complex Mathematics; Complex Math Education; Complex Math Calculators by Specialty: Algebra and Linear Algebra; Algorithms; Calculus; Central
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- Calculator Tab: Online Scientific Calculator - Marek Kyncl
A free online scientific calculator, which can store values with custom descriptions between sessions.
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- Calcul à Plusieurs Variables - Pierre Joyal, Armel Mercier
Site in French. An abundant documentation on several variable calculus, including numerous Flash and Java animations.
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- Calculus 1.0 - Ashay Dharwadker
Software for Windows. Compute and graph functions, derivatives, integrals,
tangents, arc lengths, areas, roots, maxima/minima, points of inflection,
Taylor series and Fourier series.
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