Mathematics / Statistics: Internet Sites

These free web sites lead to resources on various aspects of mathematics and statistics.

Tools

• Linear Algebra Toolkit - Tools to help students practice with linear algebra procedures.
• Martindale's Calculators On-Line Central: Mathematics and Statistics - Extensive listing of interactive calculators.
• Mathlets: Java Applets for Math Explorations - Tools to display and calculate values from precalculus, calculus, three-dimensional graphing, and more.
• Quick Math - An automated service for answering common problems from algebra, equations, inequalities, calculus, and matrices. It also plots equations and inequalities.
• VassarStats - This site leads to information about statistical computations, including probability, distribution, and statistical table calculators.
• Webmath - Provides answers and explanations to common problems from algebra, plotting, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and more.

Reference

• Mathematical Atlas - A collection of articles about mathematical subfields.
• Wolfram MathWorld - An online mathematics encyclopedia from the publisher of Mathematica software.
• PRIME: Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia - Listing of mathematical terms and concepts that can be browsed by topics such as Economics and Foundations.
• Wolfram Research's Mathematical Functions - A resource for functions (integer, elliptic, and number theory functions, among many other kinds) as well as over 10,000 visualizations of selected functions.

General

• The Math Forum - This site, based at Drexel University, has sections for students, educators, parents & citizens, and researchers.
• Cornell University Library: Historical Math Monographs; University of Michigan: Historical Mathematics Collection - Collections of digitized math books.

History

• Slates, Sliderules, and Software - Teaching Math in America - Includes information about math teaching tools in the following time periods: The Eary Republic, World Stage, Cold War, and Information Age.
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Based at St. Andrews University in Scotland, this site contains illustrated biographies of more than 1,000 mathematicians as well as an index of history topics.

Data sets

• StatLib - Provides software and data sets, available for download.

Organizations

• American Institute of Mathematics
• American Mathematical Society
• American Statistical Association
• Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• International Mathematical Union
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Guides

• Mathematics Catalogue - A section of The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing, this site provides a search and browseable topic list of mathematics websites.

Just for fun

• Curious Math - Math tricks and trivia.

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