BC Mathematics Links
- A Tribute to Dale Hoffman: biography of one of BC’s own long-time serving mathematics professors.
- Mathographies: biographical sketches of selected famous mathematicians.
- Mathematical Snippets: short descriptions of a few notable mathematical ideas and results.
Other Mathematics Links
- MacTutor History of Math & Famous Curve Index: Curves, mathematician birthdays, history
- Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics (MathWorld) : The web’s most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities.
- Math Words: First uses of mathematical words
- Mathematical Glossary: Glossary of mathematical terms
- Math Quotation Server : Quotations by mathematicians about mathematics and life
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians : From Agnes Scott College
- Faces of Women in Mathematics: From Association for Women in Mathematics
- Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics :
- Search Pi Page: Is your birthday in PI? Search the first100 Million digits of Pi to find that or any other string of digits.
- Search Pi Page: Is your name in PI? Search the first 4 Billion binary digits of Pi to find that or any other 10 character string.
- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences::Is your sequence of digits the beginning of a known sequence?
- Math in the Movies Page : More than Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting, this page rates the mathematics and the films themselves for more than 30 movies.
- Math Awareness Month:
- The Mandelbrot Explorer: Explore and magnify any part of the Mandelbrot set
- Strange Wheels : What kind of a ride will you get with square wheels?
- Acme Klein Bottles :Need a Klein bottle? This is the place.
- Elliptical Billiard Tables : Nice animations of the behavior of a ball on an elliptical billiard table passing through a focus, passing between the foci, and passing outside the foci.
- Polygonal Billiard Tables : Really nice applet to find the trajectory on a polygonal table. You can select the polygon and the starting path.
- Maple Home Page
- Maple Application Center
- Voting : Expected Utility model — pivot probability calculations.
- Digital Michelangelo Project : Download a “fly around” of David. And much more.
- Level Set Methods (Sethian at UC Berkeley) :
- TerraServer-USA : This site lets you zero in on any location in the USA as either a topographical map or an aerial photo. The data is from the U.S. Geological Survey
- Anagrams : Dale T Hoffman = FDA Math Felon = Fond math flea = offhand male. What does your name equal?
- Math Genealogy Project: an effort to compile information about all mathematicians in the world. Simply type the name of the mathematician into the search field on the center of the homepage, even the names of anyone that has completed a PhD in math!
Last Updated April 8, 2024