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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. Specific design suggestions by HerbieTMac · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It has been noted that the design of this website needs work. Let me reiterate that and add some specifics.

    • Color. Forget the dithering. It renders horribly on LCD monitors and low-refresh rate CRTs.
    • Search. Wow does that search need work. A google "site:math-atlas.org" thingy will work better.
    • Navigation. Some may not agree with me but tables would be a definite plus on this site. Keep a sidebar visible so that I can see where I am and easily click around.

    Overall, kudos for the content and generally improving the web.

  4. 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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