External
Links
Below are some external links of some interest to me.
- Academicians
I Met
- Institutes of Higher Learning
- Publishers
- Useful Network Resources
- History of
Mathematics
WT Ang
24 July 2005
24 July 2005
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
John Donne (1572-1631)
This
webpage gives brief
personal
accounts of some
of the academicians I have met.
Below are links to some of the institutes of higher learning where I had either worked before or visited as a casual visitor or as a visiting academician or as a conference participant.
Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand)
Iowa State University (USA)
Kasetsart University (Thailand)
Kyung Hee University (South Korea)
Mahidol University (Thailand)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Pai-Chai University (South Korea)
Shinshu University (Japan)
Sogang University (South Korea)
Tsinghua University (China)
Tunku Abdul Rahman College (Malaysia)
Universitat "La Sapienza" di Roma (Italy)
Universiti Malaya (Malaysia)
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Malaysia)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)
University of Adelaide (Australia)
University of Chulalongkorn (Thailand)
University of Granada (Spain)
University of Melbourne (Australia)
Yonsei University (South Korea)
Below are links to the homepages of some publishers of scientific and technical materials, e.g. academic books and journals.
Computational
Mechanics Publications
Elsevier
Science Limited
Gordon
and Breach Publishing Group
John
Wiley & Sons
Kluwer
Academic Publishers
Sage
Science Press
Springer
Science Online
Useful Network Resources
Amazon Sales Rank Express This website maintained by Aaron Shepard allows you to check the sales rank of any book sold by Amazon.
Applied and Engineering Mathematics Books Brief descriptions of selected books and links to Amazon.
BENET or Boundary Element Resources Network was set up by Professor Alex Cheng to provide basic information on the boundary element methods (BEMs), e.g. a directory containing people who are interested in BEMs and books and conferences on BEMs.
Boundary Element Method is a website maintained by Stephen Kirkup. Information on a BEM book on acoustics may be found there.
BOOKNews on the Internet provides lists of latest books on science, technology and medicine from specialist publishers.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics contains useful information on a wide range of topics on mathematics.
Handbook of Mathematical Functions This is a scanned version of the famous and useful mathematical handbook compiled by M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun (published by Dover in 1970). When I was a student, it seemed to me that this handbook was a must for anyone doing research which involved "heavy mathematics". My own copy bought in the 1980s was well used and fairly worn out. (So I was pleased to come across this link maintained by Bill Welsh of the Astronomy Department at San Diego State University, USA.) With the wealth of information available nowadays in the internet, I have not been using the handbook as often I had in the past, but I still refer to it occasionally.
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The
picture on the top left showing me by the bust of the famous French
mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange was taken when I visited the
Museum of "Great Parliamentary Moments" at the Chateau de Versailles (picture
on bottom left), France,
in July 2005. The bust was set up to honour Lagrange as a politician, not as a mathematician! Inscribed on the stone (translated from French): "J. L. Lagrange, Senator, 1736-1813" You may find out more about the life history of JL Lagrange and other mathematicians at the Turnbull WWW Server, maintained by the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at University of St Andrews, UK. Another website on the history of mathematics is maintained by Dr Paul Scott at the University of Adelaide. For a larger version of each of the pictures, click at the picture itself. |
