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  1. A good general interest xmas book for the general public .. Edna Kramer's The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics http://bit.ly/4FIbcf
  2. A nice intro to Galois Theory with historical background ... more than another story about the"duel" http://bit.ly/75tEye
  3. Getting ready for Dec 25 and the Master's birthday ... I'm talking about Sir Isaac Newton of course, born Dec 25, 1642.
  4. Lots of online lectures on basic math courses at http://www.khanacademy.org/
  5. For students learning the geometry of complex numbers and functions here are some nice java applets http://bit.ly/6gnTeO
  6. Scientist: Mathematics is a good approximation to the real world. Mathematician: The real world is a good approximation to mathematics.
  7. Think you're good at mental gynamtics ? Watch this video http://bit.ly/5P2ccJ He is not just an "idiot savant" He's a good mathematician
  8. Interesting, insightful opinions on mathematics ... start from #1 ... on Doron Zeilberger's Opinion Page http://bit.ly/4rgGKD
  9. Every country claims the great mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange as their own; born in Italy, adopted by Germany, and French by choice
  10. Who was the greatest mathematician of the 1700s ? What is Euler or Lagrange ? 100 knowledgeable mathematicians would probably vote 50-50
  11. When Napolean asked Laplace why he did not refer to God in his book Mechanique celeste, Laplace said "Sir, I did not need that hypothesis."
  12. Astronomers only care about the second derivative, chemists only care about the first derivative; its force versus diffusion.
  13. The differential eqs y" + y = 0 and y' + y=0 are at opposite ends of a spectrum ... no loss to heat in y" + y = 0, total loss in y'+y=0
  14. Math Quote: Say what you like about mathematics, it does not lie.
  15. Math Quote: Philosophiers and poets talk about infinity, mathematicians actually do something about it.
  16. Math Poem:Here's to Tartaglia and Ferrari, we honor them on this occasion. On the 450th anniversary, of the solution of the quartic equation
  17. Dec 7, 1874 - Dec 7, 2009 marks the 135th anniversary when Cantor proved the cardinality of R^2 is equal to the cardinality of R.
  18. @stonecupid I was raised in Iowa too ... up near Spencer ... where bouts in Iowa are you from originally ?
  19. Math quote: A great mathematician is one who makes a small amount of mathematics go a long way.
  20. Math quote: The old is never destroyed in mathematics, it is the foundation for new ideas.