Helpful Links

Mathematically Related Associations

• American Mathematical Society
• American Statistical Association
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• Mathematical Association of America
• Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• National Council for Measurement in Education

Mathematical Sciences at Other Michigan Universities

• Central Michigan University
• Eastern Michigan University
• Ferris State University
• Grand Valley State University - Mathematics
• Grand Valley State University - Statistics
• Michigan State University - Mathematics
• Michigan State University - Statistics and Probability
• Michigan Technological University
• Northern Michigan University
• Oakland University
• University of Michigan - Mathematics
• University of Michigan - Statistics
• University of Michigan School of Public Health - Biostatistics
• Wayne State University
• Western Michigan University - Mathematics
• Western Michigan University - Statistics

Other Websites of Mathematical Interest

Publications and Journals

• Mathematics on arXiv pre-print server
• MathSciNet database
• A list of online math journals at UC Berkeley
• A list of free mathematics books

Mathematics and Statistics Forums

• MathOverflow
• Math at StackExchange
• Cross Validated - Statistics at StackExchange
• Computational Science at StackExchange

Math Related Blogs

• Aleph Zero Categorical A blog mostly about algebra, counterexamples, and short proofs of random observations.
• Ars Mathematica (analysis, probability…)
• bit-player Math/computer science blog of science writer Brian Hayes (writer for American Scientist)
• CTK Insights A blog for teaching
• Continuous Everywhere but Nowhere Differentiable blog of a Brooklyn high school math teacher
• dy/dan blog of Dan Meyer, a former high school math teacher now pursuing a PhD in math education – includes many videos for use in the classroom
• Dan’s Geometrical Curiosities A collection of art and math projects by a Physics student, with help from a friend who likes blog posts.
• Division by Zero (Dave Richeson: “A blog about math, puzzles, teaching, and academic technology”)
• Evolutionblog Mathematics and Politics blog by a college professor
• Explaining Math math teaching with multimedia, screencasts
• mathbabe Blog on mathematical finance by former academic
• Mathblogging.com A compilation of math blogs sorted according to genre including the “weekly pics” of the hosts: Felix Breuer, Frederik von Heymann, and Peter Krautzberger
• Mathcraft Math-inspired artwork and how-to info
• Math Goes Pop! UCLA grad student writes about math in the media and pop culture
• math for love Blog of mathematics education consultants includes puzzles, teaching tips, and philosophical musings
• Mathematics Under the Microscope (Alexandre Borovik)
• Mathlinks / Art of Problem Solving community, math Olympiad style problems discussed
• Maxwell’s Demon (Edmund Harriss: visualizing math and math art, building math sculptures)
• Political Math Visualization of political information
• QED Insight (by Santo D’Agostino; mathematics, physics, education, pitched mainly to high school and undergraduate university students and teachers, with some material for lay people as well)
• Sketches of Topology (colorful pictures, “visualizations of low dimensional topology”)
• Tanya Khovanova’s math blog Light musings, puzzles and anecdotes concerning mathematics
• Teaching College Math A blog about math, technology, and teaching.
• The Endeavour (programming, general science, probability and statistics)
• The Everything Seminar (“Geometry, topology, categories, groups, physics”; recently lots about experimental particle physics: LHC and CMS)
• The Math Less Traveled Expository writing aimed to expose the beauty of mathematics to a general audience
• The Numbers Guy Wall Street Journal’s math/economics blog by Carl Bialik
• Uncover a few New blog of problems and teaching ideas
• Vi Hart’s blog Great videos and photos of mathematical art and story-telling
• XOR’s hammer (logics and foundations)

The above is a selection from a more complete and current list at the nLab.

Math Software Resources

Computer Algebra Systems

• Maple
• Mathematica
• Sage

Interactive Geometry and Graphing Software

• Geogebra
• NonEuclid

Software for Numerical Analysis and Calculations

• MATLAB, Scilab and Octave
• Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib modules for the Python programming language

Statistical Software

• R software for statistical computing
• R Introduction to Statistics
• Minitab
• SPSS

TeX and related software

• TeX User Group - Mathematical Typesetting
• TeXLive TeX distribution
• MacTeX TeX distribution
• MikTeX TeX distribution
• LyX document processor
• TeX Catalog Online
• TeXample.net - resources for TeX users
• TeX at StackExchange
• Asymptote graphics language
• GLE - the Graphics Layout Engine