patrick honner

Math teacher in Brooklyn, New York

Mathematical Biographies

old mathematiciansThis is a comprehensive library of on-line biographies of mathematicians, brought to you by the School of Math and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/BiogIndex.html

This is a truly remarkable resource.  It looks as though they have thousands of mathematicians in the database, and you can search the biographies by author, region, area, or mathematical topic.

Each entry contains a bio, a list of publications, awards, pictures, and other related materials.  You can also check out their famous curves index.

Bravo, SMSUSAS!  This is the kind of thing that the internet was really made for.

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By patrick honner, ago

Cool Knot Animations

knot animationThis is a nice collection of some lovely mathematical images and animations:

http://www.math.ru.nl/knopen/

There are some knot animations, some 3-D fractals, and some cool surfaces.  It seems as though these images and animations were generated in Maple.

There are also some nice images generated in some kind of ray-tracing program that may or may not be called vort.

Vort could also be the name of the person who created all these images.  I’m not sure; my Dutch isn’t very good.

By patrick honner, ago

Math Quiz: NYT Learning Network

us china moneyThrough Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network.  My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/test-yourself-math-feb-14-2011/

This problem is based on comparing the total national incomes of the United States and China.  My solution offers a simple way to turn per capita income and population into meaningful percentages.

By patrick honner, ago
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