Calvin faculty and students at MathFest 2009

Math/Stat Links

We have collected here a number of mathematics and statistics related links. If you find dead links or have better links to suggest, please let us know.

If you came here because you have a mathematical question, see if it is one of the Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics maintained by the Sci.Math FAQ team (Alex Lopez-Ortiz, editor).

At Calvin
Instructional Resources
Profession
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At Calvin

Events at Calvin: [2006 Michigan MAA Annual Meeting]
Departments at Calvin: [Department of Mathematics and Statistics] [Department of Computer Science]
Calvin College: [College Home Page] [Admissions] [Maps] [CLUG (Calvin Linux Users' Group)]

Instructional Resources

Course Web Pages: [Courses at Calvin] [Additional Instructional Resources assembled by R. Pruim] [Ten Powerful Ideas -- and applications (a.k.a. "How to think like a Computer Scientist"; this is the course web page for Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, Spring 1998; has good material for discrete mathematics courses, too.)]
Web-based and Interactive Teaching Resources: [Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications] [Java Components for Mathematics Project (a collection of Java utilities that makes writing mathematical applets much easier)] [The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library] [Manipula Math with Java (from IES Japan)] [WebWork (an online homework delivery and grading package useful for mathematics being developed at the University of Rochester)] [Euclid's Elements (with Java diagrams)]
Graphing Calculator Resources: [TI-82 Tutorial] [TI-83 Plus Tutorial] [TI-83 Precalculus Trigonometry Tutorial] [TItutorials.com]
Other Teaching Resources: [STATS '99] [The Mathematics Archives] [The Math Forum] [ACM Ironman Report on CS Curriculum] [Peer Instruction in Large Lectures (Eric Mazur--Harvard Physics)] [Math Quotes Server] [Math in the Movies]

Profession

Organizations: [ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)] [ACM SIGACT (ACM Special Interest Group in Algorithms and Computation Theory)] [ACMS (Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences)] [AMS (American Mathematical Society)] [ASA (American Statistical Association)] [Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (CoMAp)] [IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)] [MAA (Mathematical Association of America)] [Michigan Section of MAA] [SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)] [SOA (Society of Actuaries)] [YMN (Young Mathematicians Network)]
Magazines, Journals, Articles: [lanl physics e-prints] [Search UnCover database for articles on almost anything (also: UnCover Home Page)] [electronic Mathematics Journal for Undergraduates] [ECCC: (The Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity)]
Events & Contests: [Mathematical Contest in Modeling (2000 problems, 2001 problems)] [2001 Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (at GVSU, Feb. 2001)]
Publishers: [Addison-Wesley] [McGraw-Hill Higer Edu] [Prentice Hall] [Seven Bridges Press] [Springer Web site] [Springer FTP site] [PWS]

Technology

HTML / Brousers: [Blatte -- the Better LAnguage for Transforming TExt] [Introduction to HTML documentation] [Chimera] [WWW Viewer Test Page] [iDocs Guide to HTML] [Learning HTML by Example] [How do they do that with HTML?] [Tips for Writers and Designers] [Advanced HTML] [Cascading Style Sheets Quick Reference] [W3C (WWW Consortium)] [Style Sheet Validator] [HTML Validator] [HTML Link Checker] [HTML Tidy (cleans up sloppy html)] [CGI 101 Tutorial] [CGI Resource Index] [CGI.pm library (perl)] [Use Fore Site (good source of tutorials)] [Big Nose Bird (another good source of tutorials)] [Animated GIFS from Harry the Cat]
TeX: [TUG: TeX Users Group] [EmTeX] [EmtexGI (GI=graphical interface)] [MikTeX] [Using Vim with TeX (especially MiKTeX)]
Linux: [linuxdoc.org] [CLUG (Calvin Linux Users' Group)] [Linux HowTo's] [Linux Laptop HowTo] [Tony's Source Archive (addpath is especially handy)]
Computer Algebra Systems: [Saaz Mathematica Tutorial from Los Alamos National Lab] [Saaz Maple Tutorial from Los Alamos National Lab] [Intro to Mathematica]
Java: [Java API Documentation (at JavaSoft)] [Gamelan] [Digital Espresso] [JavaWorld] [Java Books] [Gilder - Software shift] [Tutorial] [Virtual Rendezvous] [VPRO] [FAQ] [Another FAQ] [brief Java Tutorial] [AWT Tutorial] [Dr. Java] [Thingtone's Java Workshop] [Layout tutorial] [real-time Java] [Glasgow Persistent Java] [Mailing-lists Search]

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