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"Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics." --Siméon-Denis Poisson, 1781-1840
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Mathematics Gateway Pages
http://www.sciencegems.com/math.html A searchable, annotated list of both college and K-12 level mathematics resources. A helpful list of links to mathematics departments at colleges around the country provided by Fred Lemmerhirt at Waubonsee Community College. "The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics." 
History of Mathematics
at the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences of the University of St. Andrews, includes more than 1000 biographies of major mathematicians, listed alphabetically and chronologically. 
Special Topics
This site is an excellent resource for ACC students. Contents include ACC MTH course descriptions, ACC faculty directories and websites, information on testing, placement, transfer of courses to other institutions, and more. Created by A. G. Reinhold, the page lists and describes movies that feature mathematics. Movies are given math ratings as well as film ratings, with critiques of instances in the films when math is featured. A fun site! This site, created by the Mathematics Department at Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Washington, describes six mathematical concepts: the Pythangorean Theorem, Archimedes' Tombstone, the Mobius Strip, the Koch Snowflake Curve, Plateau's Problem, and Counting to Infinity. home page of the Carnegie Mellon University statistics department, is a distribution center for statistics. Searchable. Two topical indexes. Last updated 10/22/96. "The aim of Chance is to make students more informed and critical readers of current news that uses probability and statistics as reported in daily newspapers...." "a collection of essays describing careers for which a background in mathematics is useful." The individuals profiled, in describing their jobs, suggest an answer to the question "Why study math?" a link from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's math department home page. 
Math Problems, Puzzles, and Tutorials
In addition to college level help, Dr. Math also provides K-12 topics and problems. Site offers a searchable database of public domain and shareware software, links to other software sites, teaching materials, and a directory of WWW links arranged by mathematical topic. Interactive examples of how and why we use math in daily life. This site provides algebra problems and instruction, but includes strategies for note taking and test preparation. Other topics include linear equations, inequalities, polynomials, word problems, factoring, algebraic fractions, and percentages. This site is an excellent resource for real help with algebra. A great resource for people who love to solve math problems. Also, the parent site contains a large collection of math related links maintained by Steven Finch, M.S. A West Texas A&M University site with extensive online tutorials in College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Beginning Algebra. This site also has tutorials for the math portions of the THEA, ACCUPLACER, and general GRE tests. 
Library ResourcesMath books and other multimedia resources at Austin Community College libraries are shelved under the following call numbers:
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Resources
on this page intend to support the mathematics curriculum at Austin
Community
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