Miscellaneous

Travels

• Wollongong, Australia 2008
• BIRS 2008 in Banff, Canada
• GPOTS 2007 in Lincoln, Nebraska
• WCOAS 2007 in Honolulu, Hawai'i
• Graph Algebra Workshop in Malaga, Spain 2006
• Iowa City, Iowa 2005
• GPOTS 2005 in Orlando, Florida
• Newcastle, Australia 2004

Mathematics

• The PracTeX Journal at the TeX Users Group
• The Harvard College Mathematics Review
• The Counterexamples in Functional Analysis home page
• Richard Reynolds' Problem of the Week
• A Video on Moebius Transformations by Jonathan Rogness
• The Euler Archive

Quotations

• Mathematical Quotation Server
• The Quote Garden
• Some of my favorite quotes
• Some quotes from professors
• Some quotes from the Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein
• Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments for Teachers

Diversions

• The Nightingale and the Rose, a short story by Oscar Wilde
• To Build a Fire, a short story by Jack London
• Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, a poem by Robert Browning
• Ethan Frome a novel by Edith Wharton
• Old Calvin and Hobbes comic strips
• The FoxTrot comic strip
• The Dilbert comic strip
• Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD), a comic strip about graduate student life

Cool Images

• Every character on the Simpsons
• Raphael's School of Athens and a description.
• The Flammarion Woodcut depicting "the universe and man", and a description.
• The earth at night
• The curviest road in the world
• The tallest vehicular bridge in the world -- now called the Millau Bridge, but formally known as le Viaduc de Millau
• A channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany
• A picture of an iceberg
• Soldiers forming a human statue of liberty.
• A Graeco Latin Square projected onto a rotating sphere
• Some Optical Illusions:
  • A painting with two interpretations
  • Play find the black dot
  • An illusion of motion
  • Another illusion of motion

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