Links
Some of my favorite mathematics related links are listed
below:
The best computer software for doing mathematics is Mathematica.
It is unmatched in its versatility in performing both
symbolic and numerical calculations. Its drawbacks are
complexity and price. See their home page at Wolfram Research for more
information.
You can download a free copy of MathReader
which is a viewer that allows you to read and print
Mathematica notebooks.
A web site that can do integrals is The Integrator. It
evaluates integrals symbolically, not numerically. It can
solve every indefinite integral in your calculus book.
The site is powered by Mathematica.
Eric Schechter of Vanderbilt University has a special
article on The
Most Common Errors in College Math that I recommend
all students look at. You may also enjoy his little essay
Why
Do We Study Calculus?
Of course, see Cynthia Lanius' (Rice University) I
Love Calculus page.
The Math
Archives is probably the most extensive math related
site on the web. It contains many categories of
information. For example, see calculus.
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Do you want to learn more about limaçons? Check out
the Visual
Dictionary of Special Plane Curves. It contains
information about many common and not so common curves
encountered in mathematics.
Another fun geometry
site.
An encyclopedia of information on the History
of Mathematics. This site's archives are organized in
many different ways: by name, by date, by place, etc. A
great place to browse.
Gene Klotz of Swarthmore College has written a nice
article on Mathematics
and the World Wide Web. It contains links to
many other math-related sites.
Math
reform and, in particular, calculus reform is
vigorously debated in the academic community. This web
site by Bob Jantzen of Villanova University contains an
interesting article on the subject as well as many links
to additional articles.
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Several electronic journals and links to other
mathematical sites are at the American
Mathematical Society.
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