Mathematics Links

Table of Contents

• General Indexes
• Organizations
• College and University Mathematics Departments
• General Resources
• History of Mathematics
• Number Theory
• Fermat's Last Theorem and Elliptic Curves
• Mathematical Art
• Fractals, Chaos
• Puzzles & Recreations
• Algebra
• Lie Groups and Algebras
• Topology
• Geometry
• Analysis
• Logic and Set Theory
• Mathematical Software and Symbolic Computation
• TeX Information

General Indexes

• Yahoo Mathematics links
• Excite's Mathematics links
• InfoSeek Guide: Mathematics
• ZIA Mathematics Resources - well done
• Galaxy Mathematics links
• WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics - Based at Florida State University
• Mathematics Information Servers - A large worldwide list, including university math departments, mathematical societies, research institutes, commercial pages, journals, preprint servers, and subject area pages. Based at PSU.
• Mathematical Resources on the Web - Extensive list, based at the University of Florida. Includes academic sites that had particularly good indexes.
• Math Sites on the Internet - Part of The Math Forum
• Useful Internet Math Resources - At Oklahoma State U, includes extensive list of links by David Wright
• Math-Net Links to the Mathematical World - Mostly lists of indexes and other higher-level lists
• University of Pennsylvania Electronic Sources for Mathematics
• Caltech Guide to Mathematical Resources
• CSC Mathematical Topics - Traditional list of links
• CSC TopMath - Allows anyone to add their own site. However, it is rather unusual as an index, since the interface doesn't allow direct access to the URLs.
• Stanford University Math Department Math Links
• Northern Illinois University Math Links
• Bengt Hallinger's Mathematical Resources
• Dave Rusin's Home Page
• Lemonte Squibb's Hot Math Links
• University of Leeds' Interesting Places in Pure Math
• WWW Hyper-Weirdness Math links - Short and slightly eccentric
• Danish Electronic Mathematical Information Resources
• Dave Graser's Math Links
• Mathematical BBS, Ferrara Italy - Has math links. References to other academic fields also
• Nigel Smart's Math Links - General, non-linear systems, algebra, and number theory
• MacTutor History Of Mathematics Likes to other Mathematics pages
• David Joyce's List of Mathematics Web Resources - Emphasis on the history of mathematics
• MSRI List of Mathematics Sites
• Western Michigan University math links
• Mother of all BBS: Mathematics
• Webdexter Mathematics
• Singapore Secondary Schools Mathematics Links
• WHO's Online - Mathematicians
• Keith Matthews' Gateways to the Web
• University of Minnesota Math Links
• Where the Wild Things Are - Mathematics
• CentrePoint: Mathematics
• GNN Select Science & Technology: Mathematics
• MacPort Mathematics List
• A Handy Guide - Mathematics
• Thomas Cooper Library Mathematics Resources
• Carleton Univ. Math Links
• Mathematics and Statistics Web Sites
• E. J. Inglis-Arkell
• Lamson Library Mathematics Connections
• Research Level Math
• The Pure Mathematics Page
• Netmation Math Links
• Zsolt Farago's Math links - Nicely categorized by field and special topics
• Mathematics Beyond Dartmouth
• Dina Roumiantseva's Mathematical Resources
• John's Page of Mathematical Resources
• Digital Librarian: Mathematics
• SNU Department of Mathematics Links - Many meaty pages, categorized
• Red Petal's PhyS-MaT: Mathematics - categorized
• Michigan Electronic Library: Mathematics

Organizations

• International Mathematical Union
• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• Canadian Mathematical Society's CAMEL server
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Institute for Mathematics and its Applications - At the University of Minnesota
• Oxford University Invariant Society
• DIMACS - Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
• Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics
• Pure Math Club, University of Waterloo

College and University Mathematics Departments

Most departments seem to have their own pages these days. This list is limited to those whose site offers something of interest to off-campus users. Various indexes provide more comprehensive department lists.

• California Institute of Technology
• Florida State University
• Harvard University
• Northwestern University
• Penn State University
• Stanford University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Connecticut
• University of Florida
• University of Michigan
• University of Pennsylvania
• MIT
• Princeton
• University of Chicago

General Resources

• Math Forum Home Page - "Our goal is to build a community that can be a center for teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, citizens at all levels who have an interest in mathematics education."
• Math Forum - College Level Math
• Math Forum - Research Level Math
• MathSearch - Searchable Web index for mathematics
• Mathematics Archives - Teaching materials, software, preprints. "The goal of the Mathematics Archives is to provide organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources." Very good list.
• Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics (Lopez-Ortiz) - The FAQ editor's own pages
• Usenet Sci.math FAQs (Ohio State) - Part of Ohio State's general FAQ collection
• Mathematical Preprints
• Sci.Math Mathematics FAQ
• Clifford Pickover's Home Page
• MathPro Press
• MathSource Gopher
• European Mathematical Information Service
• Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Dept. of Mathematics
• Mega-Math
• The Math Forum - An NSF-funded project to provide mathematical resources to educators
• Mathematical Quotation Server
• The Mathematics On-Line BookShelf
• Unsolved Mathematics Problems - By Steven Finch. "I am less interested in reporting the latest incremental advances on well-known problems than I am in publicizing little-known problems."
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics - Astonishing collection of encyclopedia-style articles on hundreds of mathematical topics
• POP Mathematics - Links to mathematical topics that can get mathematicians really excited
• PAM Mathematics Page - News and links
• Math Lessons and Courses
• AMS Mathematical News
• AMS Mathematics Preprints and Reports - links to archives
• Annals of Mathematics
• PROMYS - Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists
• Mathematics E-Print Archives at Duke - Algebraic geometry, functional analysis, differential geometry, quantum algebra - also here
• The Mathematical Problems of David Hilbert

History of Mathematics

Mathematics is somewhat unique in being a science with a continuous history of development for over 2500 years - with much of the first work still valid and relevant. Hence the usefulness of studying its history.

• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Most complete site on the Web for the history of mathematics
• Mathematicians' biographies - At the MacTutor site, over a thousand individual biographies
• History of Mathematics - Maintained by David Joyce
• History of Mathematics: Timelines - From David Joyce's site
• D. R. Wilkins' History of Mathematics site - Includes material from W. W. Rouse Ball on 17th and 18th century mathematicians
• History of Game Theory - A pretty complete overview of this field, which has many applications in economics, politics, law

Number Theory

• Number Theory Web - also here
• Mathematics Archives - Number Theory
• Things of Interest to Number Theorists - From the Number Theory Web - Mirror site
• David Bressoud's home page
• The Largest Known Primes
• Hasse Server: Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic Number Theory
• The Prime Page - By Chris Caldwell - everything about prime numbers
• Mersenne Primes: History, Theorems, and Lists - By Chris Caldwell
• The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• The Langlands Program - One paragraph summary by Harry Riesmann
• Vignettes on automorphic forms, representations, L-functions, and number theory - By Paul Garrett
• Bibliography of automorphic and modular forms, L-functions, and representation theory - By Paul Garrett
• Computers in Number Theory - A very brief overview
• Mathematical Archives - Number Theory
• Number theory links at Mathematical BBS
• Descriptions of areas/courses in number theory
• Riemann Zeta Hypothesis
• The Riemann Hypothesis
• The Riemann Hypothesis
• Alan Pope's Number Theory Links
• Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Mathematics FAQ: Number Theory
• Continued Fractions Involving Pi
• Chris Caldwell's Prime Page
• The Mathematics of RSA - encryption
• Algebraic Number Theory Archives
• Arithmetic Geometry Seminar Bibliography
• Palindromic Numbers and other Recreational Topics">
• Unsolved Problems (Number Theory)

Fermat's Last Theorem and Elliptic Curves

• MacTutor History of Fermat's Last Theorem
• Usenet Math FAQ - Fermat's Last Theorem (Ohio State)
• Usenet Math FAQ - Fermat's Last Theorem (Lopez-Ortiz)
• Further information on FLT
• van der Poorten - Notes on Fermat's Last Theorem
• CICA Fermat Project
• Fermat's Last Theorem - Report from 1995 conference at Boston University
• Elliptic Curves - "A collection of links on research articles on elliptic curves and related topics (applications, modular forms, FLT)"
• References on elliptic curves - A bibliography by Marc Joye
• Fermat Fest Videotape - Video documentary of the 1993 Fermat Fest, which presents background and expository information
• Fermat's Last Theorem - An AMS video tape of a lecture by Barry Mazur
• What We Know About Fermat's Last Theorem
• Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture
• 1996 Conference on Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
• Overview of the Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem - by Gerd Faltings
• Links for Fermat's Last Theorem
• BBC Horizon Documentary on Fermat's Last Theorem - A discussion between Andrew Wiles and other experts. Also here and here and here
• Tedi Draghici's FLT page
• Tony's Math World
• ZIA Fermat's Last Theorem Resources
• A talk by Wiles about FLT
• Yahoo - FLT Links
• Fermat's Last Conference - notes from a conference at Boston U.
• Elliptic Curves Virtual Study Group
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Elliptic Curve Crypto
• Bibliography of Fermat's Last Theorem - many references
• AMS - Fermat's Last Theorem
• Peter Alfeld's Fermat's Last Theorem Page
• Facts Magazine Article on Fermat's Last Theorem
• Fermat's Last Theorem - Book by Simon Singh
• Nova Online - Fermat's Last Theorem

Mathematical Art

See also Fractals, Chaos

• Infinite Fractal Loop - A Web ring for fractal art
• Math Art Gallery
• Math art
• Chaos Gallery - From the University of Maryland
• Gallery of Interactive Geometry
• Fractal Pictures & Animations at CNAM - also Mandelbrot set Ken Musgrave's Home Page - Abstract art, scientific visualization, and "Algorithmic landscapes", such as planets, rendered using fractals. "Landscapes resonate with the reptilian level of my brain on exactly the same wavelength an attractive young woman does."
• Fractals from Ojai - Fractal images by Art Baker
• Xah's Mathematics Graphics Gallery
• Phil's Fractal Gallery
• 3D Strange Attractors and Similar Objects - By Tim Stilson, very unique images
• Matt Maki's Fractals
• Jon Bertsch's Fractals
• Psychedelic Images
• MathVISION Picture of the Month - Includes spectacular 3D fractal images
• Steve Karl's Fractals
• Mathematics Graphics Gallery

Fractals, Chaos

• University of Maryland Chaos Group - A good place to start for chaos and fractals, with a lot of information and links
• Exploring Chaos and Fractals - "An electronic textbook which includes full text, work sheets, sound, video and animation. Parts of the material have been placed on this Web server as an experiment in electronic publishing of hypertext based material. ... Exploring Chaos and Fractals covers the subject of chaos theory and its closely related field of fractal geometry."
• The Fractal Microscope
• Fractal FAQ - By Ermel Stepp
• Contours of the Mind - Exhibition of fractal art, essays on fractals and chaos
• Fractal Explorer (Neal Kettler)
• Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer (David Joyce)
• Sprott's Fractal Gallery
• 3D Strange Attractors and Similar Objects
• The Spanky Fractal Database - "This is a collection of fractals and fractal related material for free distribution on the net. Most of the software was gathered from various ftp sites on the internet and it is generally freeware or shareware."
• What is Chaos Theory?
• Mandelbrot Explorer
• Mandelbrot Exhibition
• Randy's Fractals Page - has index of other fractal pages
• FRACTINT distribution
• Fractint Home Page - essential reference
• Index of Fractint Information
• The Multifractal Explorer
• Jean-Pierre Louvet's Fractal Page
• Fractals in Postscript
• Fractals and Scale - A tutorial
• Smorff's Web Page - Fractal links & other stuff

Puzzles & Recreations

• Mathematical Games and Recreations
• Internet Center for Mathematics Problems
• Interesting Mathematical Aphorisms

Algebra

• What is a Jordan Algebra?
• Division Rings
• What Are Clifford Algebras and Spinors?
• Semigroup resources - An index
• Category Theory Mailing List Home Page
• McGill Category Theory Research Center - (ftp site)
• Field Arithmetic Preprints Archive
• The Moonshine Page - Surprising connections between finite simple groups and modular functions
• Wallpaper Groups - Discontinuous groups of rotations and translations in the plane

Lie Groups and Algebras

• What is a Lie Group?

Topology

• Algebraic Topology Discussion List
• Topology Atlas Home Page

Geometry

• The Geometry Forum - "An electronic community for lovers of geometry"
• The Geometry Center - Center for the Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures, at the University of Minnesota
• Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics, and Graphics (GANG) - At UMass/Amherst
• Xah's Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves
• Algebraic Geometry Seminar - solid material here (DVI & Postsrcipt)
• The Flat Torus in the Three-Sphere
• Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves

Analysis

• Real Analysis Mailing List FAQ

Logic and Set Theory

• Axion of Choice Home Page

Mathematical Software and Symbolic Computation

• A brief History of Algebra and Computing - By Jonathan Bowen - accessible to non-specialists
• Symbolic Mathematical Computation Information Center - Resources for symbolic and algrbraic computation
• Wolfram Research - Makers of Mathematica software
• MathSoft Home Page - Makers of Mathcad software
• MathWorks, Inc. - Makers of MATLAB
• Waterloo Maple, Inc. - Makers of Maple (of course)
• Guide to Available Mathematical Software - Gateway to information assembled by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
• AMS Index of Software for Mathematics
• The REDUCE Computer Algebra System
• Xah's List of Great Math Programs - computer algebra, geometry, fractals, AI, games, puzzles
• The MathVISION Home Page
• Great Math Programs - Mostly Macintosh shareware/freeware
• Mathematica Packages - Freeware Mathematica notebooks
• UCALC Multipurpose Calculator - Multipurpose calculator which includes an expression evaluator, unit converter, 2D/3D graphing, general ledger, financial modules, user solution modules, and an integrator.

TeX Information

• CTAN - Comprehensive Tex Archive Network - "A set of fully-mirrored ftp sites providing the most complete, up-to-date TeX-related software possible"
• TeX Sources and Utilities - From the University of Pennsylvania
• AMS TeX Resources
• Personal TeX, Inc.
• LaTeX2HTML - Tramslation software
• Jens Christiansen's Bookmarks - EmTex links
• emTeX: TeX for OS/2, PC-DOS, and MS-DOS
• University of Aveiro emTeX software archive
• WWW servers dedicated to (La)TeX
• CERN CN/ASD Text Processing

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Last updated: December 13, 1997