- Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS)
ACMS promotes interaction among Christians in the mathematical sciences and encourages them to explore the relationship of their faith to their discipline. History, membership and online newsletter.
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- Boaz Tsaban's Homepage
Includes three PostScript papers: Was Godel right? Was Pi known to ancient Rabbis? and On the Rabbinical Approximation of Pi. Also a links to a Jewish Mathematics page.
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- Brendan McKay
Software includes nauty, a program for computing automorphism groups of graphs and digraphs, which can also produce a canonical labelling; and plantri, a program for generating planar triangulations. Also, skeptical treatment of claims made of miraculous
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- Calendrical Calculations - Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold
A book about the algorithms used to calculate different calendars (Gregorian, Julian, Mayan, Hebrew, Persian, and more.) The preface, table of contents, index, and a sample chapter are available in PDF and PostScript formats. Other book resources include
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- Computer Generated Islamic Star Patterns - Craig S. Kaplan
Islamic star patterns are a beautiful and highly geometric art form whose original design techniques are lost in history. This site describe one procedure for constructing them based on placing radially-symmetric motifs in a formation dictated by a tiling
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- Culturally Situated Design Tools: Teaching Math through Culture - Ron Eglash
Java for creating your own Mangbetu design, cornrow curves, graffiti, bead looms, SimShoBan, Yupik star navigator, Yupik parka patterns, Pre-Columbian pyramids, and rhythm wheels -- and learning the mathematics behind them. Organized into African, African
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- Curious and Useful Math - Clay Ford
Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of math problems, many from the 1888 book The Carpenter's and Joiner's Pocket Companion. Multiplication Tricks; Division Tricks; Squaring Tricks; Can it Divide...?; Age Math; Bible Numbers; Box Tricks;
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- Doron Zeilberger's Electronic Headquarters
Doron Zeilberger researches combinatorics using computer programs. The site is notable for his Opinions page; these opinions are wide-ranging but touch upon mathematics education, the use of computers, and the value of incomplete proofs. All of Zeilberger's
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- The Mayan Adventure
Multi-page, JAVA-based, Mayan Adventure games, meant to be fun and instructive. Learn the Mayan number system and mathematics, the Mayan system of timekeeping, and significant facts about Mayan culture and history; learn to decipher up to 40 percent of
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- The Millennium Sphere - The Cooper Union
Jean Le Mee, Manuel A. Baez, and a team of their Cooper Union students submitted the Millennium Sphere for an international time-capsule competition sponsored by the New York Times Magazine. Watch a Shockwave animation of Ad Quadratum generation that
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- QuizStar - Advanced Learning Technologies, Center for Research on Learning at The University of Kansas
Create online quizzes and organize the results. Features include the ability to attach multimedia files to questions, to make quizzes in multiple languages, and more.
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- Religious Beliefs Made Visual: Geometry and Islam - Jane Norman, Consultant, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Although the shapes and structures are based on the geometry of Euclid and other Greek mathematicians, Islamic artists used them to create visual statements about religious ideas. A discussion of the use of geometric motifs in Islamic art, with instructions
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- Religious schools inspire math reasoning - B. Bower - Science News Online
Students at ultraorthodox Jewish schools, who study mainly holy texts, outperform most students at mainstream schools on tests of geometric reasoning, perhaps because of the emphasis on reflection and considering different perspectives.
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- Sacred Science: Essays on Mathematics, Physics and Spiritual Philosophy - Thomas J. McFarlane
Essays in philosophy and religion intended to reveal the harmony in mathematical, physical and spiritual knowledge: Quantum Mechanics and Reality; Symmetry in Science and Religion; Science: Physical and Spiritual; Kant and Mathematical Knowledge; The
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- Sangaku, Japanese Temple Geometry - Tony Rothman, Princeton University
For centuries in Buddhist and Shinto shrines, Japanese have hung wooden tablets containing mathematical problems. Read PDF or PS downloads of a tutorial on the inversion method for solving Sangaku, or of the article "Japanese Temple Geometry," which first
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