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Euclid: WikiCommons
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Various Math Links
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General:
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Cool Math & Physics Blogs
(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
(from Degrees
of Freedom, a favorite list)
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Free
online calculators
(calculateforfree.com)
("Calculate anything anytime ...")
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Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered?
(lukesci.com)
("There’s an age-old question about whether
mathematics is something that is discovered or whether it is
something that is invented ....")
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Mathematics
(wikipedia.org)
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Math Study Guides - SparkNotes
(sparknotes.com)
(The Cliff Notes of math. S. K. Smith)
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PBS
NewsHour on the Khan Academy (youtube.com)
(Teaches mathematics on the web.)
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Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math - Series - The New York Times
(topics.nytimes.com)
(Great site - so much more to learn ... S.K. Smith)
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Wolfram
MathWorld: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource
(mathworld.wolfram.com/)
(Great site for math resources thanks to Wolfram. S.K. Smith)
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Books:
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$200
Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math. (nytimes.com)
("Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and
former chief executive of Sun
Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities:
their price keeps rising while the core information inside of them
stays the same.")
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Exponents:
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"Sustainability
101: Arithmetic, Population and Energy"
(smithsk.blogspot.com)
The
Numbers Game
Double
Trouble
It's
later than You Think
Peak
Oil
Apocalypse
Now?
There
must be an answer
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The
Fibonacci Series:
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Fibonacci
Flim-Flam (lhup.edu)
("Leonardo of Pisa (1170-1250), nickname
Fibonacci, was born in Pisa, Italy. He made many contributions to
mathematics, but is best known by laypersons for the sequence of
numbers that carries his name: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,
34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, ...")
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The Fibonacci Spiral and the Nautilus (Shallow Thoughts)
(shallowsky.com)
("Don't believe everything you read" is
always a good lesson for high schoolers ... and it's just as
relevant for us adults as well.)
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Fibonacci
Numbers and Nature (maths.surrey.ac.uk)
("This, the first, looks at the Fibonacci
numbers and why they appear in various "family trees" and
patterns of spirals of leaves and seeds.The second page then
examines why the golden section is used by nature in some detail,
including animations of growing plants.")
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Fibonacci Numbers and Golden section in Nature
(world-mysteries.com)
("The Fibonacci numbers are Nature's
numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf
arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower,
the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple.")
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Fractals: |
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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
(skytopia.com/)
("The original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has
captured the public's imagination for 30 years with its cascading
patterns and hypnotically colourful detail. It's known as a 'fractal' - a
type of shape that yields (sometimes elaborate) detail forever, no matter how
far you 'zoom' into it.)
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Fractal
Dimensions – Twilight Zone?
No, Nature
(smithsk.com)
("Familiar with one, two, and three dimensions? What
about dimensions of 0.63 or 1.26?
It’s not science fiction, but quite natural. Read on...")
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Rubik's Cube:
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Study
uncovers every possible Rubik's Cube solution
(google.com)
(" ... the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle can be
solved, and showed it can always be solved in 20 moves or
less.")
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