This is a nice, no-frills, on-line mathematics encyclopedia from the publishing company Springer.
For some reason, this site is hosted on the German Springer site. That’s probably not a good sign.
The entries range widely in length and depth, but it’s another good resource to have available.
This is an excellent collection of profiles of people who use serious mathematics in their careers:
http://www.maa.org/careers/profiles.html
This resources from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) profiles over one hundred individuals whose careers span Actuary Science, Engineering, Systems Analysis, Computing, Law, and Academia. Each profile includes a personal statement from the individual in which they describe the fundamental role mathematics plays in their lives and careers.
This video is billed as “an evolving landscape of a 3D fractal surface”.
I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it’s awesome. And the author claims to be working on some kind of fractal explorer that presumably would allow the user to navigate around the object.
Here’s my latest contribution to the New York Times Learning Network: a collection of ideas for math activities that are built around content from the New York Times.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/12-ways-to-use-the-times-to-develop-math-literacy/
The activities run the gamut of the paper, and include examples in Finance, Real Estate, Dining and Sports, among others. Here’s an example:
1. Find Your Dream Home
How much would you pay for 1,000 square feet of living space inNew York City? What about Los Angeles? Use the Real Estatesection of The Times to compare and contrast the cost of housing in different parts of the country, or even different parts of the world.
Or find a home for sale in your area, find an up-to-date interest rate (for that, you might try ERate), and use the mortgage calculatorlocated next to the real estate listing to compute your monthly payment over the term of the loan. How much would you have to earn per year to afford your dream home? How long would it take to save up enough for your down payment?
This 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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