Mathematics Department

Math-related Resources

The following is a listing of useful mathematics sites:

• Join the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)! They're looking for help finding Mersenne primes (for a definition, see their webpage). If contributing to a good cause just for the fun of it isn't enough, EFF will be paying $50,000 to the first person or group to find a prime with at least one million digits. Currently GIMPS is testing for primes at least that large, and it is just a matter of time before someone finds one. It could be you! (All that is required is the ability to run a program on your computer.)

   

• If you've ever needed help coming up with the general formula for a sequence of integers, the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is the place to go! Simply enter the first few terms of your sequence, and it will find all sequences that has those same terms appear consecutively. It will even try to match your sequence to a general sequence form through a number of complicated transformations, so you don't even have to have the terms of your sequence match something in its database exactly!

   

• If you have a real number, and you want to express it as a constant, some fraction, or even as a function, check out the Inverse Symbolic Calculator. From their webpage:

  "The ISC is the Inverse Symbolic Calculator, a set of programs and specialized tables of mathematical constants dedicated to the identification of real numbers."

   

• Here are some unofficial answers to the 1997 Putnam Exam

   

• Do you want to know the definition of a mathematical term you've never seen before? You can most likely find it at Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics.

   

• Learn all you want about the History of Mathematics here!

   

• Have nothing to do? Then peruse the University of Waterloo's mathNEWS !

   

• Try your favorite integral on The Integrator!

   

• Penn State List of Mathematics Information Servers

   

• Geometry Forum - Student Center. Check out Ask Dr. Math.

   

• MathPro Press Home Page Publisher of Mathematics Problem Books.

   

• If you are interested in doing research in the summer with a faculty member somewhere in the U.S., consider an NSF sponsored Research Experiences for Undergraduates ( REU ) program. In January the new sites for 1996 will be announced. We anticipate being one of the sites for the summer of 1996.

   

• Be sure to check out SIAM's Undergraduate Page (SIAM = Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

   

• Also, have a look at the Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics.

   

• Useful job search tips can be found in the MAA's Math Major's Job Search page.

   

• If you think you might want to spend a semester in Budapest, Hungary, check the Budapest semesters in Mathematics program for juniors and seniors in mathematics and computer science.

   

• The Department of Mathematics of the Pennsylvania State University announces a yearly semester-long intensive program for undergraduate students seriously interested in pursuing career in mathematical sciences. The Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters (MASS) program will start in the Fall semester of 1996.

   

• Other Math organizations are
  • The American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  • The Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
  • Young Mathematicians Network
  • ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
  • Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
  • INFORMS --Institute For Operations Research and Management Sciences
  • Operations Research home page
  • International Association For Statistical Computing

   

• For more general professional opportunities be sure to check out the W&M Career Service's Catapult