- Slopes and Ski Trails (Why Slopes and More Math) - Alan Selby
What is calculus? If you have ever seen or gone skiing or just walking over hills then you know about slopes and you have met or felt basic ideas in calculus. Calculus in the first instance is the subject of slope computation and interpretation, and the
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- Smarandache Algebraic Structure, book series. - E-library of Science
Smarandache Algebraic Structures, book series by W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy: Vol. I: Groupoids; Vol. II: Semigroups; Vol. III: Semirings, Semifields, and Semivector Spaces; Vol. IV: Loops; Vol. V: Rings; Vol. VI: Near-rings; Vol. VII: Non-associative Rings;
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- Smarandache Notions - J. Castillo
A journal for papers related to the work of Florentin Smarandache, who in the 1960s proposed some new geometries: Non-Geometry, Counter-Projective Geometry, Anti-Geometry, and Paradoxist geometry, which would generalize and unite Euclid, Lobachevsky/Bolyai/Gauss,
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- Software - School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
XLISP-STAT - a statistical environment based on a dialect of the Lisp language called XLISP; MacAnova, an interactive program for statistical analysis and matrix algebra; R-code - software that accompanies the book, An Introduction to Regression Graphics,
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- Solving Math Word Problems - Hal Schneider
A self-help tutor for grades 6-12, remedial math (all levels); and adults. Chapter titles: Elementary Math Rules; Working with "ONE"; Working with Fractions; The ' Word/Fraction' Technique; Elementary Algebra, Factoring & Ratios; Common Forms of Equations;
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- Some Mathematical Works of the 17th & 18th Centuries - Ian Bruce
This website has a number of books in PDF format translated from Latin, as well as papers by Euler, Bernoulli, etc. The books translated include Briggs' Arithmetica Logarithmica, Trigonometria Britannica, Gregory's Optica Promota, Harriot's Praxis, and
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- Sophie's Diary - Dora Musielak
Historical fiction based on mathematician Sophie Germain. Site includes book excerpts, a Spanish version of the main page, a press release, information about the author, favorite links, contact information, and illustrations from the book of Paris in
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- State of the Art Mathematics - Carole B. Lacampagne; U.S. Department of Education
Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning: a book that identifies ten ideas for transforming mathematics teaching and learning backed up by research or by promising practical experience. Includes the online document, references, and suggested reading.
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- Statistics Greenland (Kalaallit Nunanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik/Grønlands Statistik) - Dorit Olsen
Information about Statistics Greenland, map of Greenland, and key socioeconomic figures. The Statistical Yearbook,with data and tables of cultural, economic, social, political, geographical, and climate information about Greenland, is available in PDF
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- Statistics How To - Stephanie
A resource which includes step-by-step instructions for undergraduate statistics students for specific problem types, reference tables, and visual calculators that actually explain how computations are performed using the student's own inputted data.
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- StatLit.Org - Milo Schield
Hundreds of articles on statistical literacy, quantitative literacy, numeracy, quantitative reasoning and statistical reasoning. See also StatLit's recommendations of introductory books; news on recent and upcoming events; and reviews of grants.
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- The Steiner Tree Page - Joe Ganley
The Steiner tree problem is a minimum interconnection problem. The most basic
version is in a graph: given a weighted graph in which a subset of vertices are identified as terminals, find a minimum-weight connected subgraph that includes all the terminals.
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- Stephen Wolfram
The creator of Mathematica and one of the first researchers into cellular automata. Site includes a biographical sketch, photos, and a timeline of Wolfram's life; interviews with him; and the full text of many of his books, articles, talks, and patents.
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- Steve Fulling's Home Page - Stephen A. Fulling
Courses in Foundation Coalition Freshman Calculus, linearity, and other subjects offer objectives, assignments, solutions and reports, exams, and supporting documentation such as books (.pdf, .ps, and .dvi formats). The site also includes access to the
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- Steven Strogatz
Research, teaching, publications and more by Strogatz, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Best known in the academia for his 1998 Nature paper on "small-world" networks, which he co-authored with his former student
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- Steve's Words - Steve Lee
Mathematics-related articles by a student at UCLA include brief reviews of books on chaos theory and an article on the connection between game theory and nuclear strategy.
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- A Stranger from Spaceland - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
An essay about Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 "doorway to the fourth dimension and beyond for many explorers of geometry," and "a sharply delineated satire that reflects widely debated social issues in Victorian Britain," particularly women's rights.
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- Subject:Mathematics - Wikibooks
This Wikimedia project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks also produces, under its Wikijunior project, age-appropriate non-fiction children's books illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings.
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- Sumizdat Home Page - Sumizdat
Website of the publisher "Sumizdat", currently featuring the English translation of a classical Russian geometry textbook: Kiselev's Geometry/Book I. Planimetry, Kiselev's Geometry/Book II. Stereometry, and Arithmetic for Parents, translated from the
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- Surviving College Algebra - Eric Saunders
A book intended to simplify college algebra for struggling students.
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- Symbol, Form and Number in Ancient Egypt - Franz Gnaedinger
A book on early mathematics in Egypt, with some social and religious background. Includes a discussion of the use of Pythagorean triples in Egyptian architecture, and hypotheses on the calculation with unit fractions and the approximation of the area
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- SymbolicNet: Symbolic Mathematical Computation Information Center - ICM; Kent State University
The area of Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC), also known as Computer Algebra (CA), aims to automate mathematical computations of all sorts. SAC research usually combines mathematics with advanced computing techniques. This site includes: introductory
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- Synergetics on the Web - Kirby Urner, 4D Solutions
R. Buckminster Fuller's "explorations in the geometry of thinking" is detailed in two thick volumes, Synergetics and Synergetics 2. Synergetics thoroughly permeates the rest of Fuller's writings as well. The invention for which Fuller is most famous,
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- System Simulation: The Shortest Route to Applications - Prof. Hossein Arsham; University of Baltimore
Course notes. Information includes: Course Information (for students enrolled in the class); Topics in Descriptive Simulation Modeling; Statistics and Probability for Simulation; SIMSCRIPT, and SPSS Commands; Techniques for Sensitivity Estimation; Goal-seeking
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- Taking Games Seriously - Cut the Knot!, Alexander Bogomolny
In the twenty years since it first appeared, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays had become a classic and a rarity. So did its companion book, On Numbers And Games, which was written in just about a week by one of the WW's authors and saw the light
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- Tangrams: History, Puzzles, Make It, and Links - Randy Crawford
Follow the "history" link to learn about tangrams through the ages; click on "puzzles" for over 100 silhouettes to reconstruct, with solutions. "Make it" provides instructions for building your own tangram set. With references to more sites, software,
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- TeacherNet - Highlights for Children
A network of K-12 educational materials vendors and teachers: Teachers' Lounge (with email list and online bulletin board); Teaching K-8 (a monthly publication with articles available online); Zaner-Bloser (handwriting, spelling, reading and vocabulary,
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- The Teaching Gap - Stigler, Hiebert
A site supporting a book by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert in which they point out that teaching is a cultural activity. "Although there are teachers using extraordinary methods in all cultures, the extraordinary is not what defines most students'
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- Teaching with Original Historical Sources in Mathematics - Laubenbacher, Pengelley; Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State Univ.
Excerpts, many in .dvi or postscript formats, and links to extensive information from a book on teaching mathematics with original historical sources: courses, books, and materials available at the undergraduate and high school levels, work with school
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- TechExpo: Technical Conference Information Center - TechExpo Corp.
A searchable database of upcoming technical conferences, listed in chronological order or searchable by conference name, topic, sponsoring organization, country, city, state, etc. Techexpo will post up to a few lines of technical and science conference
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- Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems - SIAM
A book in html (also available in postscript format) that introduces fundamental iterative methods, notably Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, [Bi]Conjugate gradient, and Chebyshev. The chapters include notes on preconditioning, decomposition, and other related subjects.
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- Teri Daniels Books - Teri Daniels
Daniels is the author of the picture book Math Man (Scholastic Books), an IRA/CBC Children's Choice selection. The site contains information on the book, enrichment activites related to the book, and a list of math picture books the author recommends.
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- Termesphere Gallery - Dick Termes
Spherical paintings that use a six point perspective. View images of the paintings and read about the artist. Products and services include workshops, lectures, books, and models of the Platonic solids, as well as the painted spheres.
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- Thinking Mathematics! - James Tanton
Tanton writes wordless volumes of creative and surprising math puzzles, accessible approaches to calculus suitable for standardized test preparation, and curriculum "tidbits." Download his free guides to fractions and "to everything quadratic," and watch
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- Three Skills For Algebra - Alan Selby
This book describes three skills key to the algebraic way of writing and thinking, offering a first image of mathematics beyond arithmetic. It also describes the first elements of logic or rule-based reason, needed in all disciplines for writing or a
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- Topics in Probability - Wlodzimierz Bryc
Books in DVI, PS and HTML formats: Normal Distribution: characterizations with applications; Applied Probability & Stochastic Processes; Large Deviations: Performance analysis.
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- The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland - Robert Gilmore, Marc Lefranc
Web site around the book The Topology of Chaos: Alice in Stretch and Squeezeland, which is devoted to topological analysis, a relatively new technique for extracting from chaotic data the topological signatures that determine the stretching and squeezing
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- Toposes, Triples and Theories - Michael Barr and Charles Wells
A revised and corrected version of the original (1983) Grundlehren der math is available free for downloading. Formats: DVI, PDF, PostScript.
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- Totally Free Math - Terry Wesner
A free downloadable 3rd edition elementary algebra textbook with accompanying ancillaries and no advertising.
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- Trimathlon
Site centered around a book featuring activities from number theory and geometry beyond the realm of the typical school curriculum. The site features a discussion forum, a sample online game (with others promised), and a periodic puzzler with hint.
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- Turn of the Screw - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Mathematician Chris Rorres of Drexel University in Philadelphia has taken a close look at Vitruvius's specifications for constructing an Archimedes screw... Recent years have seen a revival of interest in the Archimedes screw, particularly for its proven,
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- The Two-Headed Quarter by Joseph Ganem - Chartley Publishing, LLC
A companion site to The Two-Headed Quarter, written by a physicist scrutinizing day-to-day financial decisions, such as "How far should you drive to buy cheaper gas?" and "Is money saved when you buy on sale?" and "How far should you drive to save money?"
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- UC Berkeley Wavelet Group - Univ. of California at Berkeley
People, papers and publications.
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- Understanding Algebra - James Brennan, Boise State University
In addition to "stuff to play with" on the web (a Graphing Applet (for exploring slope and intercepts of straight lines), a Prime Factorization Machine, a Prime Number List, a Quadratic Equation Solver, and a Quadratic Function Plotter), this book's full
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- Understanding Calculus - Faraz Hussain
An online book that introduces calculus through concepts and engineering applications. Read the illustrated chapters free online, or download the entire work as a PDF for a fee.
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- Understanding Mathematics: From Counting to Calculus - Keith Kressin, K Squared Publishing, Inc.
A comprehensive book for anyone who desires clear and concise math explanations, written for a non-technical audience to cover the math fundamentals normally taught from first grade through college (for more information, see the Table of Contents).
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- The Uniform Polyhedra - Roman Maeder
A shortened version of the notebook Polyhedra.ma from Illustrated Mathematics [Gloor/Amrhein/Maeder95]. Uniform polyhedra have regular faces and congruent vertices. Allowing for non-convex faces and vertex figures, there are 75 such polyhedra, as well
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- Unlocking Ways to Make Your Math Simple - Rajinder Goswami
An ebook meant to enhance calulating skills. It focuses on comprehension, speed, and accuracy. Two Flash examples provided; download the whole book for a fee.
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- The Valuation Theory Home Page - Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann
A forum for all mathematicians who work in valuation theory or apply valuation theoretical results in their own field of research. The home page offers: information about conferences and special events; names and email addresses of mathematicians working
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- Vasiliu Lucilius Homepage - Vasiliu Lucilius
Lucilius offers books of his research work in mathematics and mathematical physics.
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