Mathematics for the general public and for fun

(Wiskunde voor algemeen publiek en voor de lol)

• Nederlandse links (links in Dutch)
• links in English
• liens en Français
• Links in Deutsch

Nederlanse links

• Pythagoras (wiskundetijdschrift voor jongeren)
• Vierkant voor Wiskunde
• Nederlandse Wiskunde Olympiade
• Succesformules in beeld (Platform Wiskunde Nederland op YouTube)
• Mathness: toepassingen van wiskunde en banen met wiskunde; door Fréderique Kool en Jason Zijlstra.
• DavData (David Dirkse's Wiskunde Website)
• WisWeb. Deze site, verzorgd door het Freudenthal Instituut, biedt o.a. applets en software om te gebruiken bij het VWO wiskunde-onderwijs.
• De Bètacanon van Ruben Naeff
• Escher
  • Escher in het Paleis (paleis aan de Lange Voorhout 74, den Haag)
  • Escher and the Droste effect (by prof. Hendrik Lenstra and co-workers)
• WisFaq (lees antwoorden of stel vragen over wiskundige zaken)
• wiskunde.start.be
• wiskunde-pagina van KennisLink (van jaren geleden)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf https://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~desmit/escherdroste/
• www.wiskundemeisjes.nl (Ionica & Jeanine, archief van hun weblog in het verleden)
  • filmpje Wiskundige zoekt vrouw
• Het geheugen van de FBI (wavelets, Ingrid Daubechies en vingerafdrukken bij FBI)
• Goochelen met wiskunde.
• Lees meer over leven en werk van de wiskundige John Nash en over A beautiful mind (boek en film).
• De wiskundige nalatenschap van Wolfgang Doeblin (een spannend verhaal over belangrijk wiskundig werk dat in 1940 zijn tijd vooruit was, maar 60 jaar verborgen in een envelop bleef)
• Commentaar bij NWO Wetenschapsquiz 2001 door Tom Koornwinder

Links in English

• Mathematics in Europe
• IMAGINARY is your place for open and interactive mathematics.
  • old Imaginary site (posters sith algebraic surfaces)
• Snapshots of Modern Mathematics (by Math. Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach)
• Math feature column (monthly essays on mathematical topics, American Mathematical Society)
• The map of mathematics, by Dominic Walliman, with spoken explanation on YouTube
• Pre-University Calculus (TU Delft online course)
• Plus, an internet magazine from the UK on mathematics.
  See also their math posters.
• Theorem of the Day (by Robin Whitty)
• Career profiles in mathematics (Mathematical Association of America)
• Career information (Amer. Math. Soc.)
• Why Do Math? (SIAM)
  See also their applied math posters.
• Alexander Bogomolny:
  • Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
  • Did you know that...
• Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
• Frank Morgan's Math Chat
• Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month (in USA), always in April, each year another theme
• S.O.S. MATHematics (your free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations)
• The Pi Pages
• Web of Stories (online video interviews with great scientists, for instance Sir Michael Atiyah, Freeman Dyson, Donald Knuth)
• John Conway talking about mathematics
• Math Fun Facts
• Soliton-Lab Art Gallery
• Mathematical Fiction (a list compiled by Alex Kasman)
• Mathematics in movies
• Thales and Friends (based in Greece and operating internationally, working to bridge the chasm between mathematics and other forms of cultural activity)
• dice (Wikipedia)
• fair dice
• The Spelling Lesson (about spelling of names of famous mathematicians)
• Mathematics Songs (by Tom Lehrer)
• Finite Simple Group (of Order Two): A mathematical love song by the Klein Four Group
• Science entertainment (songs by Lynda Williams)
• Les Horribles Cernettes (songs)
• Kate Bush: Pi Lyrics (but with an error)
• The film Pi: read about it on The Internet Movie Database or on Alex Kasman's mathematical fiction pages
• Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps
• The Mathematical Bridge at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK
• Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, special virtual exhibitions:
  • The Geometry of War, 1500-1750
  • The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
• The Ambassadors (painting by Hans Holbein)
• The School of Athens (painting by Raphael)
• The topkapi scroll: geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture
• Flemish Tapestry L'Arithmétique from the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
• Mathematical photography (Justin Mullins)
• Eric J. Heller Gallery (digital fine art)
• Math Archives
  • Images and Mathematics
  • Art & Music

Liens en Français

• MicMaths, le site des mathématiques ludiques de Mickaël Launay.

Links in Deutsch

• Mathematikum, Giessen, Germany (interactive mathematics museum)
• Hauptsatzkantate by Friedrich Wille
  • appeared in Friedrich Wille, Humor in der Mathematik, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992, ISBN 3525407300
  • gif files of the score