These
are just some of the more recently interesting pages that I've
found while browsing the Web.They were last checked out in early November. Please advise any corrections to links@grout.demon.co.uk.
These
are just some of the more recently interesting pages that I've
found while browsing the Web.
They were last checked out in early November. Please advise any
corrections to links@grout.demon.co.uk.
Flatland
I recently searched the 'net to see if I could find some historical
or publication information about Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 book "Flatland".
If you haven't come across the delightful period curiousity, the
multi-dimensional story of misunderstandings, I thoroughly recommend
it! Much to my surprise, I discovered not the information I was
seeking, but the entire text!
http://www.tiac.net/users/eldred/eaa/FL.HTM.
"I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so,
but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are
privileged to live in Space.
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles,
Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining
fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface,
but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very
much like shadows--only hard with luminous edges--and you will
then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.
Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe":
but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things."
The experience with 'Flatland' immediately brought to mind the publication of 'e-texts' (electronic texts) by Project Gutenberg. This site has available for downloading just about any major book you've ever heard of. Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration, but it's worth a browse. The Master Index, and a good place to start, is at http://free.systemy.it/gut_berg.htm. [Please notice that the filename is 'gut-underscore-berg']
Mathematical
Computer Graphics The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota has done some stunning work in mathematical images. I first came across it while searching out some references for graphics of Antoine's Necklace (see current projects). The best place to start is probably with the index of images at http://www.geom.umn.edu/graphics/authors.html. There's also some home-grown computer graphics, being prepared for a current project, as part of this Web. To go directly to the thumbnails that lead you to the full-flown graphics, including a (smallish) animation, click here.
This is an annual BBC/Open University popular mathematics radio series. It's not on the air again until February 1997, but the Web of information supporting the last (1996) series is still available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/oupc/mm/. That last series examined the premise that it would shortly be possible to build lifelike computer models of long-dead mathematicians -- and get them to discuss their work with present-day professionals.
The Mac Tutor archive of the history of mathematics hosted at
St Andrews University is a real treasure mine. The pictures in
the 'Maths Miscellany' web come, with permission, from that archive,
which is well worth a browse from: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/.
There's also a Web site associated with the British Society for
Research into the History of Mathematics, BSHM.
There's also fourteen other history
of maths sites listed in the Spring edition of the BSHM newsletter.
And just in case you want to check on the latest and largest discovered prime number: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/largest.html.
I'm a great fan of both books and TV series. As well as a small fragment of hitherto undiscovered Morse in this web, there's a Usenet group alt.fan.inspector-morse (without very much traffic) and a web-site http://users.accessus.net/~dr_who/drwho (sic!).
And finally, for visitors to my home town, there's a choice - you could let me show you the best pubs (there are two Youngs' pubs in the city and a dream raft of Morrells' pubs) OR you could access the Oxford Pub Index.
[Home Page] [Travel Diaries]
[Mathematical Puzzles] [Current Projects]
[Inspector Morse] [Monopoly]
[Christmas Quiz] [Murder]
Vn.2.0 (loaded 27/11/96)