- Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Almaz Enterprises
An interactive archive devoted to Nobel Prizes and prizewinners. Browse by prize type or search by keyword. Additional information about the lack of a prize in mathematics, women laureates, and the Ig Nobel Prizes.
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- Nonlinear Physics Group - Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
A research group whose research areas include sonoluminescence, levitated drops, and acoustic and optically induced cavitation (view MPEG movies of bubbles!) A Java applet, Non-linear Dynamics Online, provides visualizations of data sets: you may use
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- Nonlinear Systems Laboratory - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A group dedicated to the analysis of nonlinear systems: list of publications (some abstracts are available online) and animations of a robot arm catching a ball and a paper airplane.
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- Non-Pathological Warp Drive within Randall-Sundram Brane World - Paul Hoiland
Discussion of a Pathology Free Warp drive based upon the Randall-Sundrum single Brane model.
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- Not Even Wrong - Peter Woit, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
A blog on a range of topics in mathematics and theoretical physics, and superstring theory in particular, dating to Match, 2004. Read the author's reflections and comments left by others.
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- Numerical Methods - Douglas N. Arnold; Mathematics Dept., Penn State University
An extensive list of centers (including online services and search engines), individual libraries, other sites (general and specific), journals, books, online publications, and other resources for numerical methods.
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- Numericana.com - Gérard P. Michon
The online companion of Numericana, this site contains excerpts from Michon's book, including the entire glossary of scientific terms. Browse an index with pithy summaries, browse by popularity, or search nearly two hundred of his "final answers" of readers'
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- Online Class: Internet Education Projects - TBT International, Inc.
A model project to show teachers how to integrate technology into the classroom. Designed so that live, interactive content will draw out technical skills. Subscribe by classroom to receive a printed teachers' resource guide; materials delivered free
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- Online Math Applications - Leung, Jiang, Jiang, Chiu, Klopfer, Chiu; ThinkQuest Junior
Activities, examples, problems, and online quizzes about math applied to real world situations in investing (a stock market simulation game), music (classical MIDI files), history (biographies and anecdotes), science (astronomy, computers, 'math in the
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- On Randall- Sundrum Model brane detuning and hyperspace drives - Doctor Paul Karl Hoiland
By invoking known constraints on Brane Models in general that follow current Standard Model requirements of Supersymmetry I will show that some of the more recent modification to the Randall-Sundrum Model do not actual predict the ability to exist off
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- On the Bass Note of a Schottky Group [PDF] - Peter G. Doyle
Using a classical method from physics called Rayleigh's cutting method, Doyle proves the conjecture of Phillips and Sarnak that there is a universal lower bound L2 > 0 for the lowest eigenvalue of the quotient manifold of a classical Schottky group,
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- Operator Algebra Resources - N. Christopher Phillips
Lists of some resources useful to mathematicians working in the subject of operator algebras. General operator algebra sites and publications, information on regular series of conferences, and some important general mathematical resources.
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- Optimization Technology Center - Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University
A research center dedicated to optimization problems. The "optimization tree," with descriptions of the different subfields of numerical optimization; interactive demonstrations and case studies, including the diet problem and minimum surface area; linear
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- Overcoming Greatness: The Decline and Recovery of British Mathematics in the Post-Newton Era - Robert Bruen; Harvard University
An historical essay on Newton and Leibniz, British Progress, European Progress, and the story of the overthrow of Newton's notation at Cambridge. Includes a bibliography.
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- PAM Electronic Discussion List (PAMnet) - Parker Ladwig and Thurston Miller (list owners)
An electronic discussion forum for the discussion of library and information resource issues relevant to the fields of physics, astronomy and mathematics, maintained by the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special Libraries Association.
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- Paso Partners: Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Language - Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
A two-volume curriculum and resources guide for K-3 educators, designed to help teachers increase achievement of Hispanic children whose first language is not English. Preceding each complete unit in English is a Spanish version of background information
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- Patterns of physical change - Phil Henshaw
Focuses on the use of tools such as derivative reconstruction (DR) to measure growth and changes in a system. Includes: a short paper "Is the basis of change evolutionary?"; a description of the theory of derivative reconstruction as a method of analyzing
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- Paul Trow's Math Page - Paul Trow
Trow's interactive web pages and perl software let you graph the Lotka-Voltera equations and see interconnected predator and prey populations plotted over time; model the trajectory of a cannonball for different muzzle velocities and angles of elevation,
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- Penn State University Mathematics Department
Course home pages and instructional material; seminars, colloquia, and conferences; and subject area pages for Penn State research centers, with preprints and links to other resources on the Web: Algebra and Number Theory; Dynamical Systems; Mathematical
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- A Penny Surprise - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Flipping a coin in the air, catching it, then determining whether it has come up heads or tails is to many people a prototypical random process. In some sense, however, coin tossing isn't really random at all. A mechanical gadget can flip a properly positioned
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- Personal Tutor - Memory Banks Pty. Ltd., Australia
Maths and science software designed to complement the secondary school math syllabus. A comprehensive learning system usually used by students and schools as a supplement and aid to coursework, but thorough enough that it can be used by individuals without
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- Peter Olver's Home Page - Peter Olver
Publications, seminar and conference talks, and more resources from the Head of the University of Minnesota's School of Mathematics. Download notes of Olver's lectures on applied mathematics, numerical analysis, orthogonal bases and the QR algorithm,
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- Philosophy of Science - David Banach
A syllabus and collected resources for a course in the philosophy of science, including excerpts from various books. Topics include ancient Greek science and mathematics: the Golden Section, Pythagoras, infinity and continuity, and Plato and Aristotle,
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- Physics and Math Help Online - Bryan Gmyrek
Tutoring available through e-mail. Previously answered questions are archived on the site, and a tutorial on The Plank Radiation Law - Blackbody Spectrum is available. The author also provides a physics help newsletter and a list of sites for further
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- The Physics Classroom - Tom Henderson, hosted by StudyWorks! Online
A physics tutorial for high school students, including explanations, animations, quizzes, and practice problems.
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- Physics Problems for the Next Millennium - David Gross, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
The ten most important unsolved problems in fundamental physics, as formulated by participants of the University of Michigan's Strings 2000 Conference: Are all the (measurable) dimensionless parameters that characterize the physical universe calculable
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- Physics Simulation in Java - Erik Neumann
Physics simulations, including springs and masses (various configurations), pendulums (single, double, chaotic), and roller coasters. You can move objects or change parameters like gravity, friction, etc.
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- Physics ToolChest: Vector Algebra Tools - ToolChest Software, Inc.
Multimedia educational software in physics and mathematics. Advanced calculators and study aids for high school and college students.
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- Play a Piano : An interactive Musical Java Activity - Paul Flavin
Play a Piano / Synthesizer / Oscilloscope: Play the piano using your mouse or computer's keyboard. Watch the wave forms as well as hear them. This virtual reality Java piano lets you play the piano and have a little fun while learning the relation between
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- Probability/Statistics and Calculus Problems of the Week (PCPOW) - Kentridge High School, Kent, WA
Probability, statistics, and calculus problems and solutions, some of which date back to 1999.
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- Project Welcome (Web Educator's Library Collection of Mathematical Explorations) - MAA (Mathematical Association of America)
Interactive mathematical programs in a newly developed, Java-based interface.
Download online or offline versions of the player. Twenty lessons, with summaries, include "Best Linear Fit," "Limits of Functions," "Piecewise Functions," "Nonlinear Equations,"
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- The rec.puzzles Archive
The index of the rec.puzzles archive. Puzzles are categorized by subject area and include solutions compiled from various sources and supposed to be definitive. Subjects include: analysis, arithmetic, combinatorics, competition, decision, geometry, group,
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- The rec.puzzles Archive - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
A list of puzzles, categorized by subject area, from the newsgroup rec.puzzles. Puzzles include solutions compiled from various sources, supposed to be definitive. Subjects include analysis, arithmetic, combinatorics, competition, decision, geometry,
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- Relativity - Brian K. Wegley; Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL
High-energy high school physics: an open-ended investigative study of relativity. Site contains a summary, scenario, student pages, and useful Internet links, as well as a list of standards addressed, and assessment rubrics. Part of the Handbook of Engaged
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- Row Your Boat - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Although a rowing shell with eight rowers is much larger than one with a single rower, all shells have roughly the same proportions (at least for the surface area over which the shell makes contact with water). Data from 2000-meter world and Olympic championship
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- Scales of Measurement - Niel Brandt
An extensive list of physical and mathematical events and objects in ascending values and orders of magnitude.
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- Science and More - PublicLiterature.org
This site has a section on applied mathematics educational resources. Topics include projectile motion, differential equation solving, collisions, unit conversion, and prime number generation. Most software is
open source.
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- Scientific American
The online version of the technology magazine, with interlinked articles, interviews with scientists, Ask the Experts, and Explorations, guided tours across the Web of recent technological developments. An archive of past articles is included.
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- Shedding Light on the Subject: Function Models of Light Decay (i-Math Investigations) - Illuminations; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
An online, interactive, multimedia math investigation in which students develop and analyze exponential models for the behavior of light passing through water. Accompanying video clips show the i-Math in action in real classrooms.
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- Simple Math Problems - Ki Woo Song
Selected math problems from a variety of sources. Solutions may either be requested via e-mail or looked up from the source (references to articles are provided.) Topics include algebraic expressions; probability; physics, geometry, proofs, and brain
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- Sketchpad 3.0 Gallery - Finzer, Jackiw; Key Curriculum Press & The Math Forum
A collection of sketches and scripts that show off new features of version 3 of the Geometer's Sketchpad in categories: Arcs and Architecture; Algebra and Beyond; Physics; Statistics; Curves; and Poincare Disk.
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- Snowflakes - Kenneth G. Libbrecht
"Your online guide to snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena." Snow activities include instructions for using everday objects and dry ice to make your own snowflakes; for using glue to make plastic snowflake replicas ("snowflake fossils")
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- Solomon Papers - Sorin Solomon
Links to papers on microscopic representation of stock markets, and some papers on clusters and multiscale, artificial creativity and novelty emergence, Vision, psychophysics, and cognitive development, Sand piles, and Lattice QCD.
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- Solutions to Heinemann AS/A Level text books - George Ierotheou
To provide ample examples of how to apply the key methods and techniques used at AS/A level.
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- Southeast Applied Analysis Center (SAAC) - School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
A centralized location to coordinate activities in applied analysis in the
Southeastern United States, fostering academic research, applied mathematical research in industrial settings, and educational innovations. The present departmental strengths
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- Special Functions in Wolfram|Alpha - Michael Trott
Special functions describe a large number of phenomena in mathematical physics and other disciplines. Michael Trott posts here about Wolfram|Alpha's treatment of these functions. In particular, there are some with two forms: a simpler version that makes
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- Sports Engineering Research Group - Matt Carré, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield (UK)
Research projects, equipment development, teaching and education in pursuit of fundamental questions about impact, friction, the aerodynamics of game balls, sports surfaces such as the traction of cleats and other footwear, and more. See, in particular,
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- Statistics lessons using data on the Internet - Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-La Crossse
Lesson plans for mathematics, science, and social studies secondary school teachers, which apply statistical analysis to data obtained from the Internet.
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- Statistics To Use - Thomas W. Kirkman; College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
A tutorial on: Mean, Standard Deviation; Student's t-Tests; chi-square distribution test; contingency tables; Fisher Exact Test; ANOVA: ANalysis Of VAriance between groups; Ordinary Least Squares; Ordinary Least Squares with Plot option; Beyond Ordinary
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- Staying in Step - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
Christiaan Huygens noticed that the pendulums of the two suspended clocks, hanging side by side from a common support, were swinging together. When one pendulum swung to the left, the other went to the right. The pendulums remained precisely in opposite
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