 Suzanne Alejandre, math teacher
Suzanne Alejandre is
Educational
Resource & Service Developer at The Math Forum @ Drexel.
She has been providing online lesson plans conforming
to the NCTM Standards
(National Council of Teachers of Mathematics).
Suzanne's Mathematics Lessons
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Ask Dr. Math
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The Math Forum @ Drexel
 John C. Baez, mathematical physicist (b.1961)
Professor of mathematics, at
UC Riverside and
cousin of the American folk singer Joan Baez (b.1941-01-09).
John Baez is a one-man Internet army who has answered
many
physics questions on sci.physics.research.
In 1993, he started an aperiodic column
reputed to have inspired the blog format.
This
Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
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John Baez's Stuff
&
Fun Stuff
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n-category Café
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Azimuth
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Wikipedia
 Alexander Bogomolny, software developer
Former Associate Prof. of Mathematics, University of Iowa.
Until May 2004,
Alexander Bogomolny had a monthly column
on the site of the Mathematical Association of America.
Cut The Knot
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Other Math Sites
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PhD (1981)
 Kevin S. Brown (Kent, WA)
Kevin
Brown signs his name only
once
his rich MathPages website
(which doesn't have any external links).
Before 1999, he was discussing
Relativity and other mathematical topics on USENET.
He's related to Fred Olden, not
Anatoly.
MathPages.com
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Reflections on Relativity
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Kevin Brown's Storefront
 Chris K. Caldwell, number theorist (b. 1956)
Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
at UT Martin.
home
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The Prime Pages
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The Prime Glossary
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PhD (1984)
 David W. Cantrell, mathematician (b. 1949)
Known for his presence on mathematical newsgroups,
where he answers popular questions and offers original contributions,
David Cantrell also contributes to
MathWorld,
Numericana, etc.
Ignorance is bliss...
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Recent Posts
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FaceBook
 Umberto Cerruti, algebraist (b. 1948)
Department of Mathematics, University of Torino (Italy).
Math News
 Jim Clark, chemistry teacher (b. 1944)
A
Cambridge
graduate who spent over 30 years
teaching A-level chemistry (to 16-18 year old students).
In 1997, he retired from
Truro School (Cornwall)
to concentrate on writing and promoting a true understanding of chemistry.
about
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Amazon page
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Chemguide online
 Karl Dahlke, blind scientist (b. 1960)
Dahlke has been totally blind since age 10.
He once managed to write a speech synthesizer on his Apple II using the bell as sole feedback.
His text-based
mathematical site is so good that it can be extremely
useful to sighted people.
home
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edbrowse (Editor Browser
for the blind )
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mathreference.com
 David Darling, science writer (b. 1953)
David Darling earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from
Manchester
in 1977 under
Zdenek Kopal
and worked for Cray Research...
A full-time writer since 1982, Darling has lived in both the US
and the UK. He has been running his websites since 1999.
The Worlds of David Darling
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Encyclopedia of Science
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Sustainable Living
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Children's Encyclopedia
 Glenn Elert, physics teacher
Glenn Elert teaches at
Midwood High School at Brooklyn College (NY).
He acts as the editor of the Physics Factbook, a large collection of
essays written by high-school students as an exercise in
library research methods (in a scientific context).
home
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Hypertextbook
+ new
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Physics Factbook
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Get Bent
 David A. Eppstein, computer scientist
Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science,
at UC Irvine.
The Geometry Junkyard
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PhD (1989)
 Brady Haran, Australian video journalist
Brady started the
Periodic Table of Videos
(PTOV) in 2008 as an unscripted series of interviews with
Martyn Poliakoff.
This grew
into several series about Science (more recently, religion and philosophy)
featuring an endearing bunch of faculty members at the
University of Nottingham.
home
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blog
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Periodic Table of Videos
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Sixty Symbols
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Test Tube
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Backstage Science
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My Favourite Scientist
 Chris Hillman, general relativist
Chris started
RelWWW
as a graduate student at
UW in 1992.
He left his pages in the care of John Baez before returning
in March 2007, disappointed by his
Wikipedia experience.
Sadly, Hillman lost faith again in June 2007 but remains
active online.
Relativity on the World Wide Web
("RelWWW" closed down in June 2007)
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Ersatz,
S. Carroll,
etc.
Colin Hughes, British Teacher
In October 2001, Colin Hughes started
Project Euler
(as a section of MathsChallenge.net)
where readers are posed mathematical questions which can be
answered by designing a computer program that can run in "less than a minute".
Project Euler
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MathsChallenge.net
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Wikipedia (Project Euler)
 Ron Kurtus, engineer (b. 1940)
Ron Kurtus is an engineer who spent a few years in the entertainment industry
before returning to electro-optical engineering.
He has established a strong online presence focusing on Science education,
mostly at the high-school level.
home
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School for Champions (SfC)
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SfC Publishing
 Cynthia Lanius, teacher & activist
Cynthia Lanius is
vocal
about the underrepresentation of women in mathematics and computing.
She is
Associate
director for The Math Forum @ Drexel,
but continues to maintain her own k-12 math site, hosted at Rice University.
Fun Mathematics Lessons (K-12)
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Ask Dr. Math
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The Math Forum @ Drexel
 Walter Lewin, professor of physics (b. 1936)
Walter Lewin is an astrophysicist
with a flair for showmanship,
His legendary undergraduate lectures at MIT were
broadcasted by UWTV (Seattle) and are available online in video form,
through MIT's OpenCourseWare.
home
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Basic
Physics | Electricity & Magnetism | Vibrations & Waves
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MIT World
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NY Times
 Jeff Miller, educator
A teacher at Gulf High School in
New Port Richey
(Florida) Jeff Miller maintains an authoritative page about the
"Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics".
home
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Words of Mathematics
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Mathematical Symbols
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Stamps
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other pages
 Robert Munafo, programmer (b. 1964)
An amateur mathematician whose interests include integer sequences,
large numbers and fractals (especially the
Mandelbrot set)
Munafo maintains an authoritative site on trivia
about specific numbers.
He has contributed to Sloane's OEIS.
home
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OEIS wiki
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MCS
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RIES
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Numbers
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Large Numbers
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Mandelbrot set
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Gray-Scott model
 Carl R. "Rod" Nave,
professor of physics
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University.
The quaint style of
HyperPhysics
comes from the HyperCard ® system
(Apple Computer) for which it was originally designed.
HyperPhysics
[ without index frame ]
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HyperMath
 John J. O'Connor (b. 1945)
J.J. O'Connor is one of the two editors (with E.F. Robertson)
of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive,
which is the most popular online
part of the Mathematical MacTutor "stack"
(running on Apple's HyperCard
system).
home
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MacTutor
History of Mathematics
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Wikipedia
 Sten F. Odenwald, astronomer (b. 1952)
Born in Karlskoga, Sweden, Sten Odenwald
received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in 1982.
An award-winning educator and author of several books,
he is currently affiliated with NASA's
GSFC and the
Catholic University of America.
blog / bio
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Space Math @ NASA
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IMAGE
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Hinode
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Ask the Astronomer
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The Astronomy Café
 Ed Pegg, Jr. (1963-) recreational mathematician
As a mathematician with a strong interest in recreational mathematics,
Ed Pegg Jr. may well be the heir apparent
to Martin Gardner
(1914-) in the Internet era.
He helped Stephen Wolfram with NKS and
joined MathWorld
in 2004.
Ed Pegg Jr.'s Math Games (MAA Column)
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MathPuzzle.com
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Wikipedia
 Dan Piponi, computer graphics guru (b. 1966)
Thinker, tinkerer and Academy Award winner...
Signing sigfpe,
Dan Piponi maintains a blog entitled A Neighborhood of Infinity
(great name!) which features some superb essays about
quantum physics and other mathematical topics.
sigfpe
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A Neighborhood of Infinity (blog)
 Simon Plouffe, numerologist (b. 1956)
Best known for his "Inverter" which attempts to express in terms of known
constants some number given in decimal form.
He collaborated to Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
home
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Plouffe's Inverter
 Edmund F. Robertson (b. 1943)
Edmund Robertson is one of the two editors (with John O'Connor)
of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
He is a Professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the
University of St Andrews.
home
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MacTutor
History of Mathematics
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Wikipedia
 Russell J. Rowlett, metrologist
Director of the
Center for Mathematics and Science Education
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
home
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A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
 David J. Rusin
Currently an associate professor of mathematics at
Northern Illinois University,
Dave Rusin launched a website in 1996 to share
mathematical tidbits he had collected since 1990,
using the Mathematics Subject Classification
(MSC).
home
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personal
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The Mathematical Atlas
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Index (MSC)
 Christoph Schiller (b. 1960)
Christoph Schiller is a citizen of the world who was raised in Italy, studied physics
in Germany and obtained a Belgian Ph.D. in physics.
He has made available for free download (pdf) a nicely crafted
physics textbook of about 1500 pages.
home
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Motion Mountain
 Alom Shaha, filmmaker
Alom Shaha is a physics teacher, film-maker,
science writer and TV producer who works in London.
His approach to science communication was rewarded by a fellowship of the
National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts.
home
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article
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Labreporter
 Neil J.A. Sloane, AT&T fellow (b. 1939)
Neil James Alexander Sloane maintains a huge encyclopedia of noteworthy integer
sequences, where each is assigned a 6-digit identifier with an A prefix (e.g. A000055) for which the acronym SIDN (Sloane ID number)
has been coined.
home
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
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The OEIS 100K E-Party
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OEIS.org
 Leonard Susskind, top physicist (b. 1940)
One of the founders of string theory
(the term worldsheet
is due to him). Professor of theoretical physics at
Stanford
since 1979.
Since 2008, videos of his ongoing series of courses on Modern Physics
(Stanford Continuing Studies)
have been made available on YouTube and iTunesU.
blog
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LearnOutLoud
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Wikipedia
 Terence Tao, top
mathematician (b. 1975)
Terence Chi-Shen Tao
is a professor of mathematics at UCLA,
born in Australia.
He was promoted to full professorship at age 24.
Terry Tao received the Fields Medal in 2006
(see PAP) and was
elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.
home
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video profile
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What's New?
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blog
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PhD (Princeton, 1996)
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Wikipedia
 Vitalii Vanovschi, software engineer
Vitalii Vanovschi created The Number Empire in 2006.
He is a computer scientist with a strong interest in chemistry.
In 2009, he obtained his Ph.D from the
University of Southern California
and became a software engineer at Google.
home
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LinkedIn
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The Number Empire
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Integral Calculator
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Number Factorizer
 Mike de Villiers, Prof. of Mathematics Education
Michael de Villiers was a high-school teacher
(HDE
in 1978, "Best Science Teacher" in 1983,
DEd in 1990)
who went on to teach mathematics education.
Former editor of
PYTHAGORAS,
author of 7 books and over 150 papers.
Vice-chair of the SA
Mathematics Olympiad Committee since 1997.
home
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bio
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Dynamic Geometry Sketches
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Constant Width
 Eric W. Weisstein, encyclopedist (b. 1969)
Eric's Favorite Links
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Treasure Troves of Science
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World of Mathematics
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World of Physics
 Robin Whitty, theorem collector (b. 1960)
Whitty received his Ph.D. in 1984
from London South Bank
University, where he is currently a visiting professor.
Inspired by MacTutor's
Mathematician
of the Day,
Robin Whitty started
Theorem of the Day in 2005, aiming for
366 theorems.
home
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MathSci
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Theorem of the Day
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Th. by Women
(+ calendar)
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Links
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Cameos
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MS
&
FB
 Edward L. "Ned" Wright, cosmologist
Astronomy Professor at UCLA (Los Angeles).
Cosmology Tutorial
Sharing Science on the Web
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Giants of Science
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Solvay Conferences
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Armorial
Nicolas Bourbaki
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Lucien Refleu
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Roger Apéry
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Other Biographies
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