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Biographies of
Women Mathematicians
Find out about the lives and achievements of women
mathematicians throughout history. (Y)
Erdos Number
Project
Explore
the bizarre world of Erdos numbers, and find out if you have
one. This is the mathematical equivalent of "six degrees of
Kevin Bacon". (Y)
Ask Dr Math
Ask Dr. Math a
question. For all levels,from elementary school through to
college and beyond. (Y)
British Society
for the History of Mathematics
This page has an extensive list of sites
that concentrate on the history of mathematics.
Special
Libraries Association Maths Pages
An indispensable site full of links to
various maths people, institutions and theories.
Joy of
Pi
David
Blatner, author of The Joy of Pi, has created his own website
devoted to Pi. (Y)
MacTutor History of
Mathematics
This site
contains archives of famous and not so famous mathematicians,
maths topics and maths in different cultures.
(Y)
Eric Weinstein's World of
Mathematics
This site contains a
lot of mostly technical material, but it is so well designed
and clearly laid out that it is surprisingly easy to
follow.
Famous Problems
A discussion of some the most elegant problems in
mathematics, at a level that will interest the
non-expert.
Millennium Prize Problems
Clay Mathematics Institute site is offering a $7million
prize fund for the solution of the 7 most important
problems in mathematics.
The Prime Pages
Award-winning site on prime numbers. The largest known
primes, links to prime resources, explanations of mathematical
theory. (Y)
Mersenne Prime
Search
Find out
about Mersenne primes, and join the search for the next
Mersenne prime.
Mathematical Atlas
A fairly technical site, aimed at those educated in
maths to degree level or higher.
Fibonacci and the Golden
section
This is a huge site
exploring the world of Fibonacci numbers - what they are,
their applications and Fibonacci related puzzles.
(Y)
Game
Theory
An excellent site
containing a comprehensive listing of everything you could
ever want to know about game theory, from lecture notes to
game theory in the news and interactive
tools.
Geometry
Junkyard
A
mathematics based site with lots of useful and interesting
information on geometry and its theory. (Y)
Math Alive
This is based
at the Princeton University website, and has lots of neat
explanations. Special sections on cryptography, error
correction, probability and chaos.
M.C.
Escher
The official website of M.C. Escher. The gallery is
full of his mind-bending pictures. |
