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organizations for those interested in becoming mathematicians
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By BFD
Posted Mon Mar 14, 2005 at 05:19:49 AM PDT
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Can any one tell me of any organizations I could join that is geared towards those who are interested in becoming mathematicians? I know of the MAA and AMS already but I was just curious if there were any more I didn't know about. Thanks in advance.
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Mathforge.net offers a wide range of general interest stories
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By jkauzlar
Posted Mon Feb 07, 2005 at 09:24:55 AM PDT
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Sometimes I wish I were really interested in weather. There are so many great websites dedicated to weather, where you can find up-to-date news related to all weather phenomenon anywhere in the world. I would never be at a loss to satiate my interests. Unfortunately I'm interested in mathematics, where it's next to impossible to find a single website that keeps me in-the-know on the current events of the field. So, a couple years ago, myself and a couple others started Mathforge.net, where we began posting, Slashdot-style, all of the information and news we found from around the web concerning mathematics. Our focuses circle around 'the big stories'-- new proofs, awards, etc, along with software releases, new websites, books, and anything else we run across.
If it sounds interesting to you, please stop by. If you have your own website or software you'd like to share with the world, then submit a story to us. Or if you've encountered an interesting paper or theory, then we'd certainly enjoy hearing about it as well.
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A new calendar for a new year.
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By jvano
Posted Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 10:41:33 AM PDT
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This is a little late in Jan to post, but just yesterday I noticed a little white paper dodecahedron sitting on one of our dept staff's desk. It turns out it was actually a 2005 calendar. I asked Mark where he got this and he gave me the url which incidently also has a
rhombic dodecahedron calendar. So what ever your flavor - platonic or not - have a great 2005!
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Google the Scholar
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By jvano
Posted Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 07:08:32 AM PDT
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I recently came across Google's new Google Scholar
search service that 'enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. [You can] use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.'
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Greatest Equations Ever
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By jvano
Posted Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 03:35:30 PM PDT
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On Monday, Slashdot had a
story
on the Greatest Equations Ever.
Reading through the comments is rather interesting. So, young mathematicians, what is/are your favorite equation(s)?
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Words of Wisdom for homework problems
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By Emil Volcheck
Posted Mon Aug 30, 2004 at 01:29:29 AM PDT
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One book's exercise is another book's
example.
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Escher reptiles meet the Mandelbrot set
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By jvano
Posted Mon Mar 01, 2004 at 10:17:31 PM PDT
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Here is an interesting webpage showing an M.C.Escher tesselation "wrapped into" a Mandelbrot set. The page also includes a brief description of how this "fractal tesselation"
was obtained.
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Fractal Google Logo
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By jvano
Posted Tue Feb 03, 2004 at 05:37:05 AM PDT
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As it does for various holidays and other days of note, it appears that today Google has replaced its standard logo with a fractal logo. The images just links to a
Julia Fractals image search so I'm not sure what this is "in honor" of. Anyone out there have any ideas (maybe Mandelbrot or Gaston Julia's birthday?)
[editor's note, by dkung] Good guess! Gaston Julia was born on this day (Feb. 3) in 1893 in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria.
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