MATHEMATICS

Infinite Ink's primary mathematical interest is foundations of mathematics, including standard and non-standard logics, set theories, and other mathematical frameworks. This page contains information about:

• Infinity
• Set Theory
• General Mathematics
• Math-Related FAQs and News Groups
• Writing Mathematics

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Infinity

Hermann Weyl said that "Mathematics is the science of infinity" and I think that the history, philosophy, and science of infinity serves as a wonderful prism through which we can understand the history, philosophy, and science of all of mathematics.

• Principia Cybernetica's Infinity page
• Webster's Dictionary: infinity and infinite
• Roget's Thesaurus: infinity
• Infinity References
• The Search for Infinity - a paper by Nancy McGough (Table of Contents only right now)
• Infinity and Beyond Class Description (coming soon)

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Set Theory and Logic

• MacTutor's The Beginnings of Set Theory
• FAQ Launcher: The Axiom of Choice - section of the sci.math FAQ
• The Axiom of Choice - revision of Nancy McGough's masters thesis (Table of Contents only right now)
• Draft of article about the Continuum Hypothesis (I'm putting it out here to help motivate me to work on it!)

Set Theory and Logic Around NYC

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General Mathematics

• MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
• Yahoo's Science:Mathematics
• The Whole Internet Catalog's Mathematics
• Eric's Treasure Trove of Mathematics

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Math-Related FAQs and News Groups

• sci.math.* hierarchy (includes links to FAQs) and graphical version of sci.math FAQ
• alt.binaries.pictures.fractals
• alt.fractal-design.painter
• bit.listserv.frac-l
• k12.ed.math
• sci.fractals FAQ and newsgroup
• sci.logic
• sci.philosophy.tech (Philosophy of Science and Math)
• sci.stat.consult
• sci.stat.edu
• sci.stat.math
• soc.history.science (History of Science and Math)

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Writing Mathematics

• Books about Writing Mathematics published by Mathematical Association of America
• HTML 3.0 had great plans to make writing mathematics for the Web easier. Unfortunately the HTML 3.0 DTD expired...
  • Arena's Introduction to HTML Math
  • The Math section of the HTML 3.0 spec is at W3 and David Raggett's pages.
  • LaTeX mathematics and tables to HTML 3.0 translator
  • Edward Nelson's Mathematics and other TeX constructs in HTML
  • HyperTeX
• Infinite Ink's Writing and Web Authoring

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Thanks

Thanks to Andreas Buja, Matt Kaufmann, and N. Shankar, who have had tremendous influence on my mathematical development.

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