Resources & Links

This page contains information about the following:

Math Software
Math Resources on the web
Books and Projects in the Department
Institutions

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Math Software

This section contains some information and links about software for Calculus, software for Statistics, Mathematica, Matlab, LateX, Pari-GP , various math applets and Biocomputing. Consult the AMS , or the GAMS for lists of available mathematical software.

Software for Calculus

GRAPH, SLINKY, and other plotting utilities for calculus, By Jim Henle "Classic" versions for a PC

QuickBasic Programs for Calculus in Context

Information about QBasic

The QBasic program itself

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Software for Statistics

Data analysis and statistical package tutorial. Data analysis tutorials using Minitab, R, S-Plus, SPSS, and Stata in the Department of Mathematics

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General Mathematical Software (Mathematica and Matlab and more)

Mathematica and Matlab are available on all computers of the Science center and many other computers on campus. Mathematica is a symbolic manipulator (which can do computations with letters and symbols) and Matlab is an interface for numerical methods. However, there is a cross over: Mathematica has a large numerical capacities, and Matlab has a symbolic manipulation toolbox (presently not available on classroom computers) powered by Maple. Both software come with tutorials. We list some other resources available on the web. The Math department also has some copies of Maple on some of the computers, and of GNU Octave, a UNIX software similar to Matlab.

Simple Mathematica Tutorial (from Purdue) and a list of Mathematica tutorials. A brief tutorial for using Geomview with Mathematica to create and manipulate "live" 3-D graphics and a A tutorial for creating animated GIF files within Mathematica (from Pau Atela) The Geomview site

Matlab quick reference and Tutorial (U of Florida)

Matlab Book by its creator (Moler)

GNU Octave is a high-level interactive language, similar to MatLab, for numerical computations. It is available on neal, evelyn, and emmy and has an online manual.

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Number Theory Software: PARI-GP

PARI-GP, a package that does high-speed computations in number theory. We have version 2.1.4 installed on our Linux machines. =To use gp on a machine other than evelyn, copy the file evelyn:/etc/gprc into your home directory as .gprc (note the "dot" at the start of the name of the copied file; the original does not have the "dot".)

A Tutorial for PARI-GP (PDF format) (DVI format) (PostScript format)

User's Guide to PARI-GP (PDF format) (DVI format) (PostScript format)

PARI-GP Home page

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Typsetting Software: Tex and Latex

Latex is the standard mathematics typesetting program.

A Latex Tutorial and another short Latex Tutorial (by J. Henle)

TeXShop a freeware for Mac (OSX) users - a user friendly interface to type Tex and LaTeX. The site also contains links to tutorials and other resources.

Local TeX and LaTeX information.

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Some Math Java Applets

Applets by Pau Atela

Linear Transformation
Map Iteration (Dynamical Systems)
Platonic Solids

Penrose Tiles.

Phyllotaxis Applets

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Biocomputing

Filarial Genome Network Home Page Sawlab home page Basic Unix Tutorial Quanta Tutorial How to create images for a Web page

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Math Resources on the Web

Help!

Help with Algebra, Stats Calculus, from the Smith College Jacobson Center

Mathematical Information

MathWorld a math encyclopedia on the web (sponsored by Wolfram)

Wikipedia another (general) encyclopedia, that anyone can write and edit.

History of Mathematics at Saint-Andrews University (Scotland)

WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics

WWW Virtual Library: Statistics

Famous Curves

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Accessing Books and Papers Online

Smith Library listing of resources available for research in Math and science.

MathSci abstracts and review of math papers

Web of Science providing access to the Science Citation Index

MathSearch key-word searches of mathematics documents

Google Scholar

Electronic Journals available at the Five Colleges and elsewhere

Back issues of a number of journals, including the Monthly, Annals of Math, Transactions. These online collections include all issues up to a "moving wall" that reaches four or five years into the past.
SIAM journals
AMS Notices
AMS Bulletin
AMS Proceedings,
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications

Preprint Archives

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Miscellaneous Math and related Sites on the Web

AMS Math on the web site and other Mathematics Information Servers

Math Moments and Math in the Media, short entertaining articles on mathematics and their applications.

Math Archives Teaching materials, software, WWW links

Math Forum at Drexel University - also teaching oriented.

Finding the address of a mathematician

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Books and Projects in the Math Department

Calculus in Context, the Five College Calculus Project (Jim Callahan)

Calculus: The Language of Change (David Cohen and Jim Henle)

Phyllotaxis, a web site on the mathematics of some common plant patterns (Pau Atela, Christophe Golé and Smith Students)

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Institutions

Five College Math departments at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and UMass

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

AMS Mathematics Calendar
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) [both browse and keyword lookup]
Mathematical items sorted by MSC Classification
AMS Index of Mathematical Software

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

The Mathematical Education of Teachers, a report of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS)
Newsletter of the Northeastern Section of the MAA

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

European Mathematical Information Service supported by European Mathematical Society (EMS)

NSF: Mathematical Sciences and NSF Home Page

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