Some interesting websites about mathematics
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The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
A large archive of the Scottish University of St Andrews with biographies of famous mathematicians, articles on the development of mathematics in different cultures as well as special mathematical topics, an overview of “famous curves”, the “mathematician of the day” and more. -
The Mathematics Genealogy Project
A project of the American Mathematical Society which aims at collecting information about all the mathematicians of the world and organizing it in some kind of genealogical tree. -
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Photographs of mathematicians. -
Manifold Destiny
An article by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber in The New Yorker of August 28, 2006 about the circumstances around Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. -
Zugbrücke außer Betrieb (Drawbridge Up)
An article by the German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger on the role of mathematics in contemporary culture. -
Zentralblatt MATH
An abstracting service maintaining a large database of mathematical papers. -
Books by Jean-Pierre Demailly
Here you can find the book “Complex analytic and algebraic geometry” and other books as PDF files. -
mathematik.de, Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (German Mathematical Society)
Websites by the German Mathematical Society, addressed as well to “non-mathematicians”, with the purpose of drawing public attention to mathematics. -
Year of mathematics
2008 was the year of mathematics! -
Videos by bothmer on YouTube
Nice animations illustrating mathematical thoughts. -
Piled Higher & Deeper
Funny comics about life as a graduate student (not only in mathematics).