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Mathematical Papers
- Arxiv: A collection of preprints maintained by Cornell University. This is a standard place for mathematicians to place their preprints and papers.
- IHES: The library for the IHES. Grothendieck’s works can be found here.
- AMS Journals: A collection of journals overseen by the American Mathematical Society.
Opportunities in Mathematics
- Travel Grants: The American Mathematical Society page with list of AMS meetings with opportunities for funding to visit or speak at these conferences.
- Programs for Graduate Students: American Mathematical Society (AMS) career and professional development opportunities for graduate students.
- Math Programs: A website dedicated to compiling research and job opportunities, especially for graduate and undergraduate students, in Mathematics and other STEM fields.
- Math Jobs: A website compiling professorships, postdoc positions, and other related mathematical positions.
- American Mathematics Society: The homepage for the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Mathematics Lectures
- Conference Videos: An open collection of videos of talks from various workshops and conferences.
- MIT OCW: MIT OpenCourseware offers lecture videos and other courseware for free.
- MSRI: A collection of lectures maintained by the MSRI.
- Clay Math: A collection of videos maintained by the Clay Mathematics Foundation.
Computational Devices
- Mathematica: Mathematica is a powerful computational mathematical software. You can find the general website here, the demonstrations page here, and the blog page here.
- MAGMA: A large, well-supported software package designed for computations in algebra, number theory, algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics.
- Sage: A free-source mathematics software system, similar to Mathematica.
- GAP: A computational device for discrete algebra.
- WolframAlpha: A useful site for making computations and pulling up data.
- Symbolab: Another symbolic calculator.
- Geogebra: A great piece of free software for all sorts of Geometry. (You can find how to use it here .)
- Calculator Programs: A site full of useful programs for the TI-83, TI-84, and TI-89.
- Rice ODE Software: A useful website for visualizing vector fields.
Mathematical Databases
- WolframAlpha: A wonderful and free computation an searchable knowledge database. The system takes verbal commands such as ‘integrate x^3 sin(2x)’, ‘plot x^2-y^2+z^2=6’, ‘barometric pressure May 5, 2014 Ithaca, NY’, ‘number of Spanish speakers in the US’, ‘map of Germany’, ‘sum of alternating harmonic series’, etc.
- LMFDB: An online database of Number Fields, L-functions, and modular forms. This site is compatible with MAGMA, Sage, Pari, GAP, and Mathematica.
- Online Integer Sequences: An online searchable database of integer sequences.
- Number Field Database: A database of Number Fields.
- Elliptic Curve Data: A database for Elliptic Curves.
- Inverse Symbolic Calculator: A free online inverse symbolic calculator.
Mathematical References
- WolframMathWorld: An extensive resource of mathematics definitions and examples.
- Math History: An online encyclopedia of mathematicians, mathematics history, and other mathematical objects.
- Mathematical Symbols: A nearly comprehensive list of symbols used in mathematical writing.
- Random: A website dedicated to demonstrating the need/usefulness of random numbers.
- Math Genealogy: A compilation of students/advisors dating back hundreds of years. The genealogy of the Mathematics Department at Syracuse University can can be found at this link.
Mathematics Help
Mathematical Publishing
- Questionable Publishers: A list of questionable publishers that graduate students should avoid submitting any papers to.
- Math Gen: A site that automatically generates (fake) ‘publishable’ mathematics papers.
- MR Lookup: A reference tool for BibTeX referencing.
Mathematical Comics and Blogs
- Tao’s Blog: The blog of famous mathematician and expositor Terence Tao.
- XKCD: A thrice-weekly comedy comic strip with topics relevant to STEM fields.
- XKCD What-If: Run by the XKCD comic creator, this site dedicates itself to answering, as accurately as possible, strange questions poised by its readers.
- LEGO Grad Student: Life as a graduate student, all told through LEGOs.
- Wolfam Blog: A blog of Mathematics and Computer Science topics using Mathematica.
- Advice for Amateur Mathematicians: Professor Henry Cohn’s advice for new mathematicians.
- American Mathematical Society Blog: A list of blogs sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, including a blog by mathematics graduate students about life as a mathematics graduate student.
- Inside Higher Ed: A page with news and blogs relating to higher education.
- PhD Comics: A comedic comic strip relating to the graduate school experience.
Mathematical Challenges
Mathematical Artwork
Teaching College Level Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- NFS Listing: The National Science Foundation’s list of summer undergraduate Math research programs.
- AMS Listing: The American Mathematical Society’s list of summer undergraduate Math research programs.
- Math Programs : A useful site for Math REU programs where one can apply to many programs with one application form.