Useful Links
National Science Foundation (NSF)
The National Science Foundation's website is a helpful source for students, educators, researchers, and those seeking careers in the science and engineering fields. As a starting point for student research, the NSF site offers articles about past and present studies and discoveries by researchers around the world and in various fields that link math and science. Virtual reality is being applied to medicine, for instance, and engineering is aiding geology. Browsing this website, I found Roman Polyak, a mathematician I studied for the living mathematician project of my Fundamentals of Mathematical Reasoning course. Polyak developed nonlinear rescaling, an optimization technique with numerous current applications, such as radiation's improved targeting of cancer cells. This site also provides statistics about student test scores and job outlooks in the sciences. Finally, instructions for NSF grant applications are available.
The National Science Foundation's website is a helpful source for students, educators, researchers, and those seeking careers in the science and engineering fields. As a starting point for student research, the NSF site offers articles about past and present studies and discoveries by researchers around the world and in various fields that link math and science. Virtual reality is being applied to medicine, for instance, and engineering is aiding geology. Browsing this website, I found Roman Polyak, a mathematician I studied for the living mathematician project of my Fundamentals of Mathematical Reasoning course. Polyak developed nonlinear rescaling, an optimization technique with numerous current applications, such as radiation's improved targeting of cancer cells. This site also provides statistics about student test scores and job outlooks in the sciences. Finally, instructions for NSF grant applications are available.
Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
The MAA website is similar to the NSF website in that it is the center of a community of mathematics lovers. Visitors to the MAA site can find articles about research and achievements in mathematics. The site offers information about upcoming conferences and competitions that teachers can use to increase student excitement about math and mathematicians can enter to hone their skills. Resources for educators and those struggling with difficult problems are suggested, as are grant opportunities.
The MAA website is similar to the NSF website in that it is the center of a community of mathematics lovers. Visitors to the MAA site can find articles about research and achievements in mathematics. The site offers information about upcoming conferences and competitions that teachers can use to increase student excitement about math and mathematicians can enter to hone their skills. Resources for educators and those struggling with difficult problems are suggested, as are grant opportunities.
Linear Algebra Toolkit
The Linear Algebra Toolkit allows the user to input entries of vectors/matrices and to instruct the site to perform various vector/matrix-related operations, from a simple row operation to reduction to reduced row echelon form to determination of a vector set's linear dependence or independence. This website is invaluable to students being introduced to post-secondary mathematics and to advanced mathematicians, alike. Linear Algebra students, like myself, choose their own series of row operations to reach RREF without getting lost in the algebra and can check their work after reducing a matrix by hand. Mathematicians can quickly solve matrix-related problems that are scratch work in their much more complex calculations.
The Linear Algebra Toolkit allows the user to input entries of vectors/matrices and to instruct the site to perform various vector/matrix-related operations, from a simple row operation to reduction to reduced row echelon form to determination of a vector set's linear dependence or independence. This website is invaluable to students being introduced to post-secondary mathematics and to advanced mathematicians, alike. Linear Algebra students, like myself, choose their own series of row operations to reach RREF without getting lost in the algebra and can check their work after reducing a matrix by hand. Mathematicians can quickly solve matrix-related problems that are scratch work in their much more complex calculations.