Maths (specialist)

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- Mathematics: body of knowledge centered on such concepts as quantity, structure, space and change and also the academic discipline that studies them (Wikipedia).

Mathematics - Resource Page

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  • AcademicInfo (US): Subject Guides - Mathematics: round up of best and most useful links and resources, listing both printed reference works and electronic resources, taking into account accessibility, authoritative sources, ease of use and aim to present a fair and well rounded perspective of the respective subject matter
  • American Mathematical Society (AMS) (US) - furthers mathematical research and scholarship through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthens mathematical education, fosters awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life: Membership, Career Services, Meetings, The Profession, Authors, Government, Public Awareness, Customer Services

  • MERLOT Mathematics Portal - goal to improve effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials easily incorporated into faculty designed courses: teaching, learning materials (Subject Categories, Browse, Pedagogic Collection, Peer Review Process), beyond MERLOT, showcase
  • Wisconsin University (US), Catalog of Mathematics Resources on the WWW and the Internet - general (US, other), Pure Maths, History & Biographies, Applied, Computational, Mathematical Physics, Teaching, Education, student Servers, Statistics, Probability, References, Utilities, FAQ's, Discussion Groups, Newsletters and Announcements, Newsgroups, Software, Program, Graphers and Calculators, Publications, Journals and Preprints,Art, Graphics, VRML and Cryptography, College and Pre-College, Directories of Resources

Other Sites

Introduction to Differential Geometry and General Relativity

distance, open sets, parametric surfaces & smooth functions, smooth manifolds & scalar fields, tangent vectors & space, contravariant & covariant vector fields, tensor fields, Riemannian manifolds, locally Minkowskian manifolds, covariant differentiation, geodesics & local inertial frames, Riemann curvature tensor, comoving frames & proper time, stress & stress-energy tensor, basic premises of general relativity, Einstein field equations, Schwarzschild metric & event horizons, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes

Calculated Bets

Gambling, Mathematical Modeling to Win
 

Vector Calculus

snapshot of some lectures, focus on presenting vector calculus in an applied and engineering context while maintaining mathematical rigour, emphasis on examples and proofs
 

The Mathematics of Computation

mathematics for modeling and reasoning about problems in computer science, useful applications, proof methods to reason about recursive and iterative programs, data structures (graphs, trees, sets, functions and their asymptotic growth, combinatorics and probability, regular languages and finite automata)

Linear Algebra

Matrix multiplication, Inverting matrices, system of equations, vector combination problem), Singular Matrices, 3-variable linear equations, Equations with 3 Unknowns, Introduction to Vectors, Vector Examples, Parametric Representations of Lines, Combinations and Span, Linear Independence, Subspaces, Dot Product and Vector Length & Properties, Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality, Vector Triangle Inequality, Defining angle between vectors, Defining a plane in R3 with a point and normal vector, Cross Product, Relationship between cross product and sin of angle, dot and Cross Product, Reduced Row Echelon ..................................
 

Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

formal mathematical concepts of computer science, elementary logic, set theory, relations, deduction, induction, algorithmic processes, graph theory, models of computation

Differential & Integral Calculus

differential calculus and applications, introduction to integration
 

College Algebra

basics, graphs, functions and their graphs, equations & inequalities, polynomial & rational functions, exponential & logarithmic functions, systems of equations, some discrete topics, the x-y files
 

Lectures on Probability, Statistics and Econometrics

The site provides access to a series of lectures and exercises on probability, statistics and econometrics at an intermediate level.

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