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Mathematical Atlas Online

Posted by timothy on from the you-are-pi dept.

vitaly.friedman writes "Whether you are looking for Complex analysis, Differential Equatiions or Probability and Statistics references, the Mathematical Atlas covers the whole area of mathematics and related subjects. The so-called 'Gateway to Mathematics' is a collection of articles about aspects of mathematics at and above the university level, but (usually) not at the level of current research. "The goal of this collection is to introduce the subject areas of modern mathematics, to describe a few of the milestone results and topics, and to give pointers to some of the key resources where further information is to be found. Like any good atlas, we try to present several ways to look at each area and to show its relationship with neighboring areas and sub-areas."

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  1. ANd what's wrong with Wolfram site? ;-) by PaulBu · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ -- great resource, not necessarily only about Mathematica (TM), but math in general.

    Paul B.

    F.P.???

  2. Oh yeah by poopdeville · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's Davin Rusin's website. He just moved it to a new domain. It was on his edu website before. He's a nice guy. He's a regular poster on sci.math and (through cross-posting) sci.logic.

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  3. And for your particular problem... by PaulBu · · Score: 2, Informative

    (least-squares solution, that is), probably the best resource is "Numerical Recipes", they have been changing their location for as long as I remember, but Goodle says it is currently at http://www.nr.com/

    I remember dealing with that particualr issue myself... ;-)

    Paul B.

    1. Re:And for your particular problem... by ChadN · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well, since you mention Numerical Recipes, it is obligatory to post one of the many rebuttals. Basically, the books have some okay discussions (and cover a very WIDE range of subjects) but their code is crap. I say that boldly, since I must maintain code that was originally developed using their C libraries. There have always been better alternatives, and especially these days when so much is available on the web.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Scientific_Librar y
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_least_squares
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomp osition
      http://www.netlib.org/

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  4. PlanetMath and Wikipedia by pfafrich · · Score: 2, Informative

    Two other good maths encyclopedias are PlanetMath and Wikipedia both are open content, open source etc. PlanetMath is pear reviewed and at a high level.

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