The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different
The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete "...massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear" -- the comments are interesting also!
There has been a lot of discussion this month about this report: Citation Statistics: A Report From The International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) [26 page pdf] Here are a few links to news items and summarizing discussions, in case you don't want to read all 26 pages:
Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid
Math-Education Guru Describes Challenges and Solutions for Community Colleges Instead of algebra and pre-calculus, he said, a more effective preparation for many jobs would often be a one-year sequence of general math followed by statistics.
Geometry of Western music - about a recent Science article: Generalized Voice-Leading Spaces
Abstract Math Produces Tangible Learning, Study Finds - blog item about a recent Science article: The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math
We have trial access to all the CRCnetbase databases through Dec. 20th. Mostly this is CRC Press monographs, handbooks and reference books available and searchable online. We have not decided which specific sets we might purchase so I welcome your comments and questions. STATSnetBASE: http://www.statsnetbase.com and MATHnetBASE: http://www.mathnetbase.com will probably be most interesting to math dept. folks. Please contact Ruth Lewis if you think these might be important additions to our collection. Thank you.
Geological Sciences Mathematics tutorial system (Geomaths) provided by the Department of Mathematics, University College London.
Science Puzzles Puzzles in math, astronomy, chemistry, geology, medicine, inventions, anatomy, physics, genetics and more. There are related links to help you solve the puzzles. They range from easy to fiendish. Fun!
Finite mathematics & Applied calculus resource page, from Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble, Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University, includes many tutorials and tools which might be useful
Donald Knuth talking about how TeX came about
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - 53 minute lecture by Paul Hoffman recorded in 2002; Paul Hoffman also wrote a book with the same title The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth
Website for the course: Math alive by Professor Ingrid Daubechies at the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University. Six topics are included: cryptography; error correction and compression; probability and statistics; birth, growth, death and chaos; geometry and motion control; and voting and social choice. They are designed for those who haven't had college mathematics but would like to understand some of the mathematical concepts behind important modern applications. Lecture notes, problem sets and solutions are all provided.
If you published works in Germany before 1995, you may be interested in recent Changes in Copyright in Germany, which may allow you to retain/reclaim your rights to distribute your works online.
