Mary Pugh's Home Page
mpugh@math. utoronto.ca
Mailing Address:
Department of Mathematics
University of Toronto
40 St. George St, room 6290
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4
CANADA
Office information:
Bahen Building
40 St. George St, room 6268
phone: (416) 978-5233
fax: (416) 978-4107
Editorial Board
Computer Issues and Other Stuff
- Here is a complete set of
Linear Algebra (MAT188) lecture videos
- Here is a lovely book for elementary school teachers and parents of elementary-school aged children:
Blue Book of Mathematics for Elementary School
Teachers by
Natasha Rozhkovskaya. You can also find it at the
AMS Open Notes website.
- Ayn Rand Reviews Children's Movies
- Can you write your name? I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I can't Write My Name
- Fifteen years in the making, meet the Canadian Women Film Directors Database where you can learn about many great film directors including Tracey Deer and
Alanis Obomsawin.
- Are you thinking of using RateMyProfessor to choose whom to take
a course from?
Just don't.
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Mathematical Etudes by
Nikolai Andreev.
- Looking for
excellent, free Calculus books? Have a look at Calculus 1, 2, and 3 by Marsden and
Weinstein!
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Some disasters caused by numerical errors
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The History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
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The Digital Library of
Mathematical Functions (DLMF) Project was initiated to perform a
complete revision of Abramowitz and Stegun's
Handbook of Mathematical
Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables, published in
1964 by the National Bureau of Standards. See
R. F. Boisvert and
D. W. Lozier (2001) for historical background about this impoartant
publication. The DLMF Project has updated and expanded the coverage
for current needs. The results have been published in book form as the
NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, by Cambridge University
Press, and disseminated in the free electronic
Digital Library of
Mathematical Functions.
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For grad students and everyone else:
Arieh Iserles (an excellent writer of math articles and books) on
How to write a paper
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Children's Holiday Letters to Satan.
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Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me by
Kate Bowler.
- Yay! The
Feynman Lectures on Physics are available online!
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Becoming a Development Category by
Nanda Shrestha. From the book
Power of Development, Taylor Francis publishing, 2005.
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How to Write About Africa by
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Are you going to
office hours?
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Curious about math? Able to program?
This webpage gives problems that you can work through; suitable for all
ages --- you just need to be able to code in some language!
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20 PhD Students Dumb Down Their Thesis Just For Us
- What is
combinatorial explosion? Thanks to
Hiro Oh for linking this
video to his webpage, whence I found it.
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Correlation or Causation?
Find your own spurious
correlations.
- What is a
proof? Here's the fuller context!
- Fun with
symbolic logic. From Lewis Carroll's
Symbolic Logic: Part 1, Elementary
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Go Sally!
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Neuroscience seminars
around the UofT.
- Here are some videos of simple
solutions of the heat equation on a bounded interval, the heat equation on
a bounded interval with discontinuous
diffusivity, the wave equation on the line, and the wave equation on a
bounded interval. If you can't see the equations and math symbols for java
reasons, look at
this version of the page.
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25 Deeply Painful Ph.D. Student Problems (Besides Your Thesis)
- Concerned about cookie-cutter K-12 math instruction? Check out
Lockhart's Lament
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How Euler did it.
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Committee of Concerned Scientists
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A nice article by Siobhan Roberts about Donald Coxeter
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The Dead Grandmother Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society
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Ask the Experts at Scientific American.
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Google's Zeitgeist --- what are the top searches?
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Netlib
Public software for numerical analysis
- Matlab Primer View
using ghostview --- if you print it, you're violating copyright law!
- Matlab Primer
View using adobe acrobat --- if you print it, you're violating copyright law!
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A free online Matlab tutorial
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J. C. Polking's (free) matlab routines for ODEs
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An introduction to LaTeX 2e
- XEmacs:
Free, easy to install emacs for Windows 95, linux, unix, and mac
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Free, easy to install ghostview for Windows 95, linux, unix, and mac
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MiKTeX:
Free, easy to install LaTeX for Windows
- WinEdt:
Nifty windows editing environment that does LaTeX, Ghostview, and Acroread
- Crash course on incorporating *.ps, *.eps, and *.pdf figures into TeX files As well as how to use wrapfig.
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more info on incorporating *.eps figures into LaTeX
(And how to convert *.ps into *.eps)
- HTML Guides and Tutorials.
here,
here, and
here.
- Octave: Freeware with the matlab look and feel
- SciPy:
Scientific Tools for Python
- Let's Make a Deal!
Looking for a job?
Click here for a gzipped tar file that contains a LaTeX mass-mailing program.
Click here for the version that uses the Toronto letterhead. It has to be LaTeXed on Coxeter to work.
After downloading the file, type "gunzip LookingForAJob.tar.gz", then
type "tar -xvf LookingForAJob.tar". Read the "README" file in the
newly created directory called LookingForAJob. (If you have the
Toronto letterhead version then do all that with
"TorontoLookingForAJob".)
Also, here are some general
tips on the job search, including tips on writing cover letters,
courtesy of the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Finally, Eugene Lerman has some
suggestions
on giving a great math job talk.
My cat
Miles
ruled.
