What's New on the

    Math Archives
    June 1997
    On this page you will find a chronicle of additions and changes of the items contained on the Mathematics Archives which were made during the month of June, 1997.
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    The following link was added to the Geometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Duplicating the Cube
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Delian problem, Hippocrates of Chino, Archytas of Tarentum, Menaechmus' method, Hero's Method
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    The following link was added to the Dynamical Systems section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Period Doubling Route to Chaos

    The following links were added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Anima-LP: A Tool for Teaching Linear Programming
    • Sensitivity Analysis for the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem

    The following link was added to the Statistics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Central Limit Theorem Applet
    • Sample Distributions
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Central Limit Theorem
    • WebStat
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Summary Statistics, Z tests (one and two sample) for Population Means, T Tests (one and two sample) for Population Means, Chi-square Test for Population Variance, F Test for Comparing Population Variances, Regression
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    The following link was added to the Abstract Algebra section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Dave Benson's Representations and Cohomology Preprint Archive
    • The Mod-2 Cohomology of 2-Groups
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Magma

    The following links were added to the Dynamical Systems section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Electronic Bibliography in Ergodic theory and Dynamical Systems
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Bibliography
    • Time-Reversal Symmetry in Dynamical Systems
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Bibliography

    The following links were added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • OR-Notes
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Lecture Notes, Operations Research, Data Envelopment Analysis, Facility Layout, Facility Location, Graph Theory, Integer programming, Inventory Control, Linear Programming, Network Analysis, Network Flow, Nonlinear Programming, Vehicle Routing, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Markov Processes, Quality Control, Queueing Theory, Simulation
    • OR/MS Courses on the Web
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Course Materials

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Electronic Newsgroups and Listservs:

    The COMPGEOM Mailing Lists
    The compgeom mailing lists are for those working or interested in computational geometry.
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    The following link was added to the Precalculus section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Precalculus Weblet
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Course materials

    The following links were added to the Probability section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Buffon's Needle - An Analysis and Simulation

    The following link was added to the Mathematics Education section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • ERIC - Mathematics Education Digests
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Articles, Standards, Assessment, Reform, Homogeneous Groupings, Multicultural Mathematics

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • Hawai'i Community College, Hilo, HI, USA
        • HawCC Technology and Mathematics Review
        • Lopaka's Notebook
    • Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA, USA
        • Math Learning Center
        • Precalculus Weblet
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    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

    The following links were added to the Mathematics Education section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Italian Research in Mathematics Education 1988 - 1995
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Essays, Teaching and Learning of Aritmetics, Algebra, Geometry, Logic, and Calculus, Technology and Mathematics, Mathematical Problem Solving, Models of Teaching and Learning Processes in Mathematics
    • International Study Group for research on learning Probability and Statis tics
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Newsletter

    The following link was added to the Art and Music section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge - Art and Math Resources

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    CLAME - Comité Latinoamericano de Matemática Educativa

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • CINVESTAV - Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Electronic Newsgroups and Listservs:

    Maths Education in the UK
    This is a mailing list intended primarily for international debate, and the exchange of ideas and information about mathematics education research and practice. It also serves as a means of communication for members of the British Society for Research into Mathematics Education (BSRLM).
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    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
    • Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
        • Centre International de Mathématiques Gaspard Monge
    • Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne, Evry, France
    • Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac, France
    • Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
        • Mathematics and Modelling

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    Association Laplace-Gauss
    The Laplace-Gauss association is concerned with the promotion of mathematical ideas and methods issued from Newtonian Potential Theory or connected with it in Analysis, Geometry, Probabilities, Physics, by every communication mean (reviews, bulletins, conferences, seminaries, colloquiums, Internet, etc..)

    The following links were added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • CCC - Constraints Archive
      ADD. KEYWORDS: People, Bibliographies, Papers, Software, Benchmarks
    • Constraints Archive
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Tutorials, Preprints, Bibliographies, Journals, Mailing lists, Newsgroups, People, Benchmarks, Software, Circuit analysis, Configuration, Games, Natural language processing, Planning, Scheduling, Timetabling, Interval constraints and Newton's approximation, Mathematical programming
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    The following link was added to the Calculus section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • USNA Calculus I Homepage
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Course Materials, Computer Projects, Maple

    The following link was added to the Nonlinear Dynamics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Exploratorium's Complexity Web Site
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Bifurcation, Cellular Automata, Catastrophe Theory, Chaos, Fractals, Strange Attractor, Birkhoff, Lorentz, Van der Pol, Kolmogorov, Mandelbrot, Henon

    The following links were added to the Ordinary Differential Equations section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Damped Harmonic Motion
    • Direction Fields and Euler's Method

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • Concordia University College of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    • Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    Ontario Association for Mathematics Education

    Western Ontario Mathematics Association

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Sites with K-12 Teaching Materials in Mathematics:

    Canadian Mathematics Society's List of Projects for Science Fairs
    To date there have not been a lot of mathematics projects in the science fairs and we believe that one reason for this might be that it is not at all clear what a mathematics project might involve. To help shed some light on this problem we have prepared a list of possible projects and many references on topics that could make exciting and interesting projects.
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    The following link was added to the Applied Mathematics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • OSU Computational Physics Tutorials
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Tutorials, Monte-Carlo Techniques, Differential Equations and Oscillations

    The following link was added to the Dynamical Systems section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Virtual Chaotic Pendulum

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Sites with K-12 Teaching Materials in Mathematics:

    Columbia Education Center Mathematics Lesson Plans
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    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

    The following link was added to the Mathematics Education section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Readings in Mathematics Education
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Newman Hierarchy of Error Causes, Students' Problem Posing, Metacognition and Mathematical Problem Solving, Software

    The following links were added to the Statistics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Introductory Statistics Demonstrations
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Animations, Variance and Standard Deviation, Z-Scores, Z-Scores and Probability, Sampling Distributions, Standard Error, Standard Error and Z-score Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals, Power, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
    • SEQuaL - Statistics Education through Quantitative Literacy
      ADD. KEYWORDS: NCTM Standards, Workshops, Lesson Plans, Software

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Sites with K-12 Teaching Materials in Mathematics:

    SMILE - Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement
    The SMILE program is designed to enhance the elementary and high school learning of Science and Mathematics through the use of the phenomenological approach. Since 1986 each summer session participant has been asked to create and publish a single concept lesson plan. These lesson plans include the materials needed, a suggested strategy and expected outcomes. There are currently almost 800 lesson plans available.
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    The following links were added to the Calculus section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Java Laboratory
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Definition of derivative, Riemann Sums, Fixed Points

      The following link was added to the Logic and Set Theory section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

      • The Alonzo Church Archive
        ADD. KEYWORDS: Manuscripts, Photographs
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    The following links were added to the Number Theory section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Factoring Fermat Numbers
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Software
    • The GREAT Internet Mersenne Prime Search
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Software, Database, Newsgroup

    The following Macintosh Software was updated. It can be found in the Calculus, Graphing Aids, Miscellaneous, and Precalculus, areas.

    • Curvus Pro

    The following link was added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Golomb Rulers

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' page on POPMathematics:

    Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics
    Our aim is to present Mathematics to as wide as possible an audience, and to give an impression for mathematics of the objects of study of mathematics, the methodology of mathematics, the successes and applications of mathematics, the enjoyment of mathematics, and the wider context of mathematics. In this way we hope to allow the public and government to obtain a more accurate view of the place of mathematics in our understanding of the world, and our ability to work and live within it.
    Mathematical Digest
    Short summaries of articles about mathematics in the popular press.
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    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    New Mexico Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges

    The Tennessee Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Electronic Newsgroups and Listservs:

    NMMATYC Listserv
    The NMMATYC Listserv is an open discussion group for anyone interested in mathematics education.

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • Albuquerque Technical Vocational-Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA
    • The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA
    • Webster University, St. Louis, MO, USA
    • Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NM, USA

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

    The following link was added to the Trigonometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Trigonometry Explorer -- On-line
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Commercial CD Demo, Shockwave
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    The following link was added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

    The following link was added to the Differential Geometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Minimal Surface Library
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Symmetry-group, Touching Soap Films, GRAPE
    • Minimal triply periodic surfaces
    • The Parametrization for Mathematica of the Costa Surface
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    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
        • Mathematics Education

    The following link was added to the Geometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Geometrie mit dem Computer (German)
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Discussion Groups, Software, Notebooks

    The following link was added to the History of Mathematics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Hall of Great Mathematicians section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Biographies
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    The following link was added to the Computer Algebra section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • IMACS Conferences on Applications of Computer Algebra / Cryptology / Genetic Algorithms
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Electronic proceedings, Differential Equations, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Polynomial Systems, Stochastic Methods, Numerical Methods for PDEs, Control, CAS in Engineering Education, Automated Theorem Proving

    The following link was added to the Discrete Mathematics section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Graphs!

    The following link was added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Simplex Place
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Tutorial, Simplex Method, Guassian Elimination, Duality Theory
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    The following link was added to the Abstract Algebra section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Some Materials for the Graduate Algebra Course
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Course Materials, Jordan-Hölder Theorem, The Ascending Chain Condition, Local Rings, The Jacobson Radical of a Ring, The Krull-Schmidt-Azumaya Theorem, Unique Factorization Domains, Invertible Ideals, The Wedderburn-Artin Theorem, Semi-simple Artinian Rings

    The following links were added to the Ordinary Differential Equations section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Maple Worksheet Repository
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Maple, Signal Processing and Fourier Transforms
    • The SCHOL Project
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Published Supplementary Materials, Maple, Mathematica, Problem Sets

    The following link was added to the Linear / Nonlinear Programming and Optimization section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Global Optimization
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Software, Publications, People, Implementations, Test problems

    The following link was added to the Fractals section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Interactive Fractal Generation Using Iterative Function Systems

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' list of Publishers:

    COMAP
    Incorporated in 1980, COMAP is a non-profit organization committed to reforming mathematics education from elementary through undergraduate school.

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' collection of Other Software Sites:

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    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, USA
    • Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX, USA
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    The following links were added to the Math Archives' page on POPMathematics:

    PASS - Public Awareness and Schools Support for Mathematics
    Allergic to mathematics? It seems that many people are. Of course, if you are reading this editorial, it's likely that you aren't as allergic as some. So here is the basic problem confronting the PASS Maths project and its editorial policy: how to explain the purpose of mathematics to a wider audience, including some who have decided it's not for them, and who do not realise what they are missing.

    The following link was added to the Math Archives' listing of Mathematics Departments:

    • College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA, USA

    The following links were added to the Number Theory section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • The Prime Machine
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Sieve of Eratosthenes, Prime Twins, Goldbach Conjecture, Prime Number Theorem
    • XGC
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Extended Goldbach's Conjecture, Eratosthenes' Sieve, Mathematica

    The following link was added to the Complex Analysis section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • A Complex Function Viewer

    The following link was added to the Linear Algebra section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • College of the Redwoods - Linear Algebra
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Class materials, Scientific Notebook, Digraphs and Matlab, Modular Arithmetic and Hill Ciphers, Interpolating Polynomials, Mean Temperature on a Steel Plate, The Projection Matrix, Dynamical Systems, Population Modeling Using the Leslie Matrix, Difference Equations - Closed Form Solutions, Stage-Based Population Model - Loggerhead Sea Turtles

    The following link was added to the Algebra section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Mathematics on The Beach
      ADD. KEYWORDS: CBL - Calculator Based Labs

    The following link was added to the Geometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • Math Quilts
      ADD. KEYWORDS: Tessellations, Perspective and Fractals

    The following link was added to the Trigonometry section of the Math Archives' Topics in Mathematics:

    • NAME Project - Trigonometry

    The following links were added to the Math Archives' listing of Professional Societies:

    Irish Mathematics Teachers' Association
    The aims of the IMTA are to further the study and teaching of Mathematics and to foster co-operation between teachers of Mathematics at all levels.

    The Mathematical Association
    Chronicles for the previous month:

    May, 1997