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Courses

Current: MATH 270/271, STAT 145
Some past ones: MATH W80 (NL Dynamics), W80 (Stat Learning), W80 (Calculus on Manifolds), W81 (Modeling), 100, 110, 132, 143, 156, 161, 162, 169, 170, 171, 172, 190, 231, 232, 243, 256, 333, 335, 343, 355, 365, 391

Links

Local (Calvin) sites

Campus map
Math department homepage
Academic Calendar
Course offerings at Calvin College
Course Offerings
Useful CIT sites: Moodle | People search | Class pictures
Hekman library: online catalog | journals through ExLibris | SpringerLink | view recent acquisitions in mathematics
Search Calvin

Teaching and Learning

Video lecture series by Dr. Stephen Chew at Samford Univ.: How to get the most out of studying
A video of a lecture given by Harvard Physics professor Eric Mazur on teaching
The Lesson of Grace in Teaching, a blog by Professor Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College

Math societies/organizations

American Mathematical Society (AMS)
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Young Mathematician’s Network
The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (CoMAp)

Math related

Math Fun Facts, a website maintained by the Mathematics Dept. at Harvey Mudd College
Some essays by John Savard on topics like infinity | the fourth dimension | Gödel's proof and the halting problem
Make money finding the next Mersenne prime number
Mega Mathematics at Los Alamos National Labs
Network-Enabled Optimization System (NEOS)
Euclid’s Elements page
Furman University's Math Quotes Server
Math in the Movies
Math Archives
FSU’s Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
The game of life

Computing

C/C++: tutorial
Java: An online course | Java Components for Mathematics at Hobart & Smith Colleges
Web programming (general): PageResource.com
HTML: Primers | Style sheets
Linux: Linux Documentation Project First Guide to postscript
Mac OS X Hints
R statistical package
LaTeX: LaTeX Project | TeX Live | CTAN
MATLAB Central
OCTAVE main page | a tutorial | full documentation | OCTAVE vs. MATLAB
General: Source code at RocketAware.com

Non-mathematical

Religious: White Horse Inn
Libraries: Hekman (direct to online catalog) | MSU | WMU | GVSU | U of M | Grand Rapids Public
The Perseus Project, offering classics at Tufts University
Oxford University's Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
A real time satellite tracking site
ClassicAuthors.net
Building the Digital Earth at Cornell University
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester
The Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY-Buffalo

Books

Books I recommend
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
A list of academic book publishers
Textbook comparison shopping at directtextbook.com and chambal.com
Find out-of-print books at BiblioFind.com, BookFinder.com or FetchBook.Info

Personal

My CV in postscript or dvi format

Seminars/Workshops I've participated in:

STATS 99 Workshop at Hope College
Project NExT (general) and brown dots (specific to ’99 participants)

Publications/Research Resources

Disclaimer

Last Revised 06/21/00