FUN & HUMOR
Barbara
Ann! - see just how much fun it is in the Math Department! (Directed and
filmed by former paraprofs Courtney and Benj)
xkcd - A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math and language
Brown Sharpie
- grad math comic from former Math Paraprof, Courtney Gibbons.
NEWS
A recent
government report forecasts that math and CS - related jobs will be the
fastest growing professional occupations over the next 10 years.
MATHEMATICA
Mathematica is available in all Campus computing labs.
Discounted student licenses to be used at home are available for purchase
at the Mathematica
website.
JAVA
Free from Sun's website! java.sun.com
You want to download the latest JDK (6 update 7, as of 9/1/2008)
Once you install the JDK, note the location (default is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_xx).
You may want to move this folder to one without spaces, for simplicity. (eg
C:\java). You will then need to change a couple environmental variables to
make Java work correctly on your system.
For Windows and Linux, downloads are available from Sun's website
Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. Right-click the My Computer icon on your
desktop and select Properties. Select the Advanced tab. Click the Environment
Variables button. Under "System variables," find the PATH variable
and add this to the end of it:
C:\fullpath\to\your\java\jdk1.6.0\bin
Then find the CLASSPATH variable. If it doesn't exist (and it probably won't, if you've never used your system to develop Java code), click the New button, specifying CLASSPATH as its name, and the following value:
C:\fullpath\to\your\java\jdk1.6.0\lib
It is also recommended that users download and install the JDK 6 SE Documentation API. (Also available from Sun's website.)
For Mac OS X, downloads are available from Apple.
Please be sure to download the proper version if you have PowerPC or Intel
processor.
TEX and WINEDT
LaTeX and Winedt are available in the Mathematics lab and lounge area.
Free to download and install on your home machine or laptop.
MikTEX Tex Engine, free
to download - install this first, then decide which editor you'd like to use...
proTeXt - based
on MikTEX
WINEDT a nice graphical
Tex frontend editor (30-day trial, fully functional, but will warn you to
register after 30 days. Student licenses are $30.)
TexMaker Free
cross-platform TeX editor
WinShell free Tex frontend
editor (with no trial warnings).
LINUX
Linux is used in our computer sciences courses, and in the computing
lab in TSC 209. We are currently running Fedora 7
A Free, open-source operating system, comes in many flavors.
www.redhat.com
www.ubuntu.com
Tutt Library Resources -- Mathematics databases compiled by Tutt Library
Interactive
Quizzes on computer science and mathematics topics.
Workshops/Conferences
hosted by the CC Mathematics Department.
Labs and
handouts for math and cs software applications
Careers
Be an Actuary
Teach for America
Jobs
in Statistics
Department
of Mathematics Job Resource
Undergraduate
Researchers' Registry
Topics
History of Mathematics
Geometry Project
Calculus Project
Some Pi
Fibonacci
Numbers (and the Golden Ratio)
About Numbers
Associations
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
MAA Student page
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Tools
Searching for Math topics
The Math Visualization
Toolkit