 John C. Baez, mathematical physicist (b.1961)
Professor of mathematics, at
UC Riverside; he is a
cousin of the American folk singer Joan Baez (b.1941-01-09).
John Baez is a one-man Internet army who answers
many
physics questions on sci.physics.research
and publishes his own aperiodic column.
This
Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
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John Baez's Stuff
&
Fun Stuff
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n-category Café
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Wikipedia
 Alexander Bogomolny, software developer
Former Associate Prof. of Mathematics, University of Iowa.
Until May 2004,
Alexander Bogomolny had a monthly column
on the site of the Mathematical Association of America.
Cut The Knot
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PhD (1981)
 Kevin S. Brown (Kent, WA)
Kevin
Brown signs his name only
once
in his rich MathPages website
(which doesn't feature a single external link).
Before 1999, Brown was discussing
Relativity and other mathematical topics on USENET.
Fred Olden is related to Brown,
Anatoly isn't.
MathPages.com |
Reflections on Relativity
 Chris K. Caldwell, number theorist (b. 1956)
Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
at UT Martin.
home
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The Prime Pages
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The Prime Glossary
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PhD (1984)
 David W. Cantrell, mathematician (b. 1949)
Known for his presence on mathematical newsgroups,
where he answers popular questions and offers original contributions,
David Cantrell also contributes to
MathWorld,
Numericana, etc.
Recent Posts
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FaceBook
 Umberto Cerruti, algebraist (b. 1948)
Department of Mathematics, University of Torino (Italy).
Math News
 Karl Dahlke, blind scientist (b. 1960)
Dahlke has been totally blind since age 10.
He once managed to write a speech synthesizer on his Apple II using the bell as sole feedback.
His text-based
mathematical site is so good that it can be extremely
useful to sighted people as well.
home
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edbrowse (Editor Browser
for the blind )
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mathreference.com
 David Darling, science writer (b. 1953)
David Darling earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from
Manchester
in 1977 under
Zdenek Kopal
and worked for Cray Research...
A full-time writer since 1982, Darling has lived in both the US
and the UK. He has been running his websites since 1999.
The Worlds of David Darling
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Encyclopedia of Science
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Sustainable Living
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Children's Encyclopedia
 Glenn Elert, physics teacher
Glenn Elert teaches at
Midwood High School at Brooklyn College (NY).
He acts as the editor of the Physics Factbook, a large collection of
essays written by high-school students as an exercise in
library research methods (in a scientific context).
home
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Hypertextbook
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Physics Factbook
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Get Bent
 David A. Eppstein, computer scientist
Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science,
at UC Irvine.
The Geometry Junkyard
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PhD (1989)
Chris Hillman, physics and math expositor
In 1992, Hillman started
Relativity on the World Wide Web
(he was then a math grad student at the University of Washington).
He left his pages in the care of John Baez before returning
in March 2007, disappointed by his
Wikipedia experience.
Sadly, Hillman lost faith again in June 2007 but remained
active online.
Colin Hughes, British Teacher
In October 2001, Colin Hughes started
Project Euler
(as a section of MathsChallenge.net)
where readers are posed mathematical questions which can be
answered by designing a computer program that can run in "less than a minute".
Project Euler
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MathsChallenge.net
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Wikipedia (Project Euler)
 Walter Lewin, professor of physics (b. 1936)
Walter Lewin is an astrophysicist
with a flair for showmanship.
His undergraduate lectures at MIT are legendary.
Some of those have been broadcasted by UWTV (Seattle) and are available online in video form,
through MIT's OpenCourseWare.
home
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Basic
Physics | Electricity & Magnetism | Vibrations & Waves
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MIT World
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NY Times
 Jeff Miller, educator
A teacher at Gulf High School in
New Port Richey
(Florida) Jeff Miller maintains an authoritative page about the
"Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics".
home
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Words of Mathematics
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Mathematical Symbols
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Stamps
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other pages...
 Robert Munafo, programmer (b. 1964)
home
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Numbers
|
Large Numbers
 Carl R. "Rod" Nave,
professor of physics
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University.
The quaint style of
HyperPhysics
comes from the HyperCard ® system
(Apple Computer) for which it was originally designed.
HyperPhysics
[ without index frame ]
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HyperMath
 John J. O'Connor (b. 1945)
J.J. O'Connor is one of the two editors (with E.F. Robertson)
of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive,
which is the most popular online
part of the Mathematical MacTutor "stack"
(running on Apple's HyperCard
system).
home
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MacTutor
History of Mathematics
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Wikipedia
 Sten F. Odenwald, astronomer (b. 1952)
Born in Karlskoga, Sweden, Sten Odenwald
received his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in 1982.
An award-winning educator and author of several books,
he is currently affiliated with NASA's
GSFC and the
Catholic University of America.
blog / bio
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Space Math @ NASA
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IMAGE
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Hinode
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Ask the Astronomer
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The Astronomy Café
 Ed Pegg Jr. , recreational mathematician
As a mathematician with a strong interest in recreational mathematics,
Ed Pegg Jr. may well be the heir apparent
to Martin Gardner
(1914-) in the Internet era.
He helped Stephen Wolfram with NKS and
joined MathWorld
in 2004.
Ed Pegg Jr.'s Math Games (MAA Column)
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MathPuzzle.com
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Wikipedia
 Dan Piponi, computer graphics guru (b. 1966)
Thinker, tinkerer and Academy Award winner...
Signing sigfpe,
Dan Piponi maintains a blog entitled A Neighborhood of Infinity
(great name!) which features some superb essays about
quantum physics and other mathematical topics.
sigfpe
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A Neighborhood of Infinity (blog)
 Simon Plouffe, numerologist (b. 1956)
Best known for his "Inverter" which attempts to express in terms of known
constants some number given in decimal form.
He collaborated to Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
home
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Plouffe's Inverter
 Edmund F. Robertson (b. 1943)
Edmund Robertson is one of the two editors (with John O'Connor)
of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
He is a Professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the
University of St Andrews.
home
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MacTutor
History of Mathematics
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Wikipedia
 Russell J. Rowlett, metrologist
Director of the
Center for Mathematics and Science Education
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
home
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A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
 Christoph Schiller (b. 1960)
Christoph Schiller is a citizen of the world who was raised in Italy, studied physics
in Germany and obtained a Belgian Ph.D. in physics.
He has made available for free download (pdf) a superbly crafted
physics textbook of about 1500 pages.
home
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Motion Mountain
 Alom Shaha, filmmaker
Alom Shaha is a former physics teacher who works as a TV producer in London.
His approach to science communication has been recognized with a fellowship from the
National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
article
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Labreporter
 Neil J.A. Sloane, AT&T fellow (b. 1939)
Neil James Alexander Sloane maintains a huge encyclopedia of noteworthy integer
sequences, where each sequence is assigned a 6-digit identifier with an A prefix (e.g. A000055) for which the acronym SIDN (Sloane ID number)
has appeared in Wikipedia.
home
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
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The OEIS 100K E-Party
 Terence Tao, top
mathematician (b. 1975)
Terence Chi-Shen Tao
is a professor of mathematics at UCLA,
born in Australia.
He was promoted to full professorship at age 24.
Terry Tao received the Fields Medal in 2006
(see PAP) and was
elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.
home
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video profile
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What's New?
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blog
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PhD (Princeton, 1996)
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Wikipedia
 Eric W. Weisstein, encyclopedist (b. 1969)
Eric's Favorite Links
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Treasure Troves of Science
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World of Mathematics
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World of Physics
 Robin Whitty, theorem collector (b. 1960)
Whitty received his Ph.D. in 1984 from
London South Bank
University, where he is currently a visiting professor.
Inspired by MacTutor's
Mathematician
of the Day,
Robin Whitty started
Theorem of the Day in 2005, aiming for
366 theorems.
home
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MathSci
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Theorem of the Day
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Th. by Women
(+ calendar)
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Links
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Cameos
|
MS
&
FB
 Edward L. "Ned" Wright, cosmologist
Astronomy Professor at UCLA (Los Angeles).
Cosmology Tutorial
Sharing Science on the Web
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Giants of Science
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Solvay Conferences
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Armorial
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