Links
Some of my favorite mathematicians
Leonhard Euler--The Euler Archive makes most works available online
This should be a great source of undergraduate research projects!
Rahul Pandharipande
He's one of the world's greatest enumerative geometers.
Art Benjamin
A mathemagician called "America's Best Math Whiz" by Reader's Digest
Joe Gallian
He's possibly the only mathematician whose talks can send chills down my spine.
He's also the past president of the Mathematical Association of America.
Hermann Weyl
A pioneer in systematically developing mathematical foundations for modern physics,
who also had a propensity for
great quotations such as these.
Math
When will I use math?
A web site to help students understand how math is extremely useful in life
Most Lucrative College Degrees
The top 15 highest-earning college degrees all have one thing in common -- math skills.
Casting Out Nines
A blog about mathematics, technology, education, etc. by math professor Robert Talbert
It has interesting posts such as
Why do we overcomplicate calculus like this?, where he discusses Stewart's method of finding average velocity.
Calculus: Modeling and Application
A free, interactive, online calculus textbook
Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs (from The Wall Street Journal)
Mathematicians Land Top Spot in New Ranking of Best and Worst Occupations in the U.S.
GeoGebra
A great piece of mathematical software for exploring the interaction between algebra and geometry.
Brainfreeze Puzzles
Focuses on nonstandard variations of Sudoku
Mathematical Quotations Server at Furman University
83 pages of searchable mathematics quotations
The 100 greatest mathematical theorems of all time
(in the opinion of a guy named James Dow Allen)
The 50 greatest mathematicians of all time (in the opinion of a guy named James Dow Allen)
Personally, my list of greatest mathematicians has Newton at the pinnacle and Euler second.
Earliest
Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
This contains some illuminating historical explanations!
Platonic Realms
Contains an online mathematics encyclopedia and lots of math quotes
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Trace the "advisor lineage" of mathematicians all the way back to the 1600's!
My mathematical ancestry
includes Hilbert, Lindemann, Klein, Gauss, Dirichlet, Fourier, and Lagrange.
Ma & Pa Kettle doing math
No matter how convincing you think your argument is, you can still be wrong!
Mathematics Pronunciation Guide
You can learn how to pronounce mathematical terminology and mathematicians' names
correctly!
The Math in the Movies Page
A guide to major motion pictures with scenes of real mathematics.
Square root of 2 is irrational
This page gives six different proofs! (And there are more!)
The Mathematical Problems of David Hilbert
In 1900 David Hilbert gave a speech enumerating 23 major problems to be studied in the 20'th century. Some consider it the most influential mathematical speech ever.
S.O.S. Mathematics
An interactive tutorial on a variety of subjects.
Useful Links--Mathematics
A listing of useful mathematics sources posted by Wisconsin Lutheran College.
My Links for Calculus Class
(I taught first-semester Calculus in Fall 2008.)
American Mathematical Society
The Mathematical Association of America
Music
The Klein Four Group
Mathemusicians known especially for their song Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
Phil Keaggy
Christian musician & one of the world's greatest guitarists
The Divers
Excellent acoustic group from Minnesota, though with mainly a local following
pastemusic.com
Read about and get music by cool independent artists.
kissthisguy.com
The hilarious archive of misheard lyrics--I especially like the ones from Nirvana, Pink Floyd, and Queen ("The algebra has a devil for a sidekick eeeeeeeeee...").
Pro-Life
University Faculty for Life
A multidisciplinary association of scholars speaking out for human life
Lifenews.com
The most comprehensive pro-life news source
Youth for Life
Libertarians for Life
Feminists for Life
Pregnant? Think you might be?
Locate a Pregnancy Center near you.
Etc.
A Faustian bargain
An excellent letter in defense of true liberal arts education by Brandeis University biochemistry professor Gregory Petsko
Campaign For Liberty
The organization at the forefront of the movement for more freedom and less government
The Creativity Crisis
A fascinating article on creativity, its recent decline in the U.S., and the role of education--especially appropriate given the creativity theme this year at SUNY Fredonia
My lazy American students
This article claims that native college students are lazier than their international classmates. What do you think?
FireproofMyMarriage.com
Companion website for the extremely compelling movie Fireproof. Every married couple should see this movie!
Operation Health Freedom
A free market alternative to government-run health care
Teaching with a hole in my pants
HILARIOUS stories of embarassing things that happened to professors while teaching
The Animal Odd Couple
A dog and an elephant have formed an unusual friendship
Fredonia Go Green!
Information about recycling and so forth
Imaginary Freedonias
The official website of the fictional nation of Freedonia
A description of the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup which takes place in a mythical kingdom of Freedonia
Lyrics to the song "Hail, Hail Freedonia!" from Duck Soup
Project Vote Smart
Find out about current officials and candidates for offices in your area.
U.S. National Debt Clock
Track the disasterously monstrous size of our communal loan balance.
The Declaration Foundation
Learn about the Declaration of Independence and the principles on which the United States was founded. Headed by Alan Keyes.
Dumb Laws
Many of these hilarious laws are still on the books.
The Hoaxkill service
Get the facts on some outlandish email hoaxes clogging our bandwidth.
American Bible Society
This page can display any Bible passage at your request and can also search for specific phrases.
weather.com from The Weather Channel
Find current weather conditions in and forcasts for any part of the world.
Gallery of Images
These are images I have copied.
Some are quite funny!
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