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Links to Mathematics Pages by Jonathan Vos
Post, including: A partial solution to the 'Four Pi' puzzle in arithmetic;
square roots of factorials; Knuth's Conjecture; the Four Fours puzzle; the Four Nines
puzzle; Number Theory; Triangular Numbers; Polygonal Numbers; Quantum Mechanics.
NEW pages: part of why we get over 1,000,000 hits per month; 30,000 accesses a day from 130 countries!
MATHEMATICS: Fantasy and Science Fiction about Mathematics
Stories, Novels, and Films about Mathematics... Loads slowly (over 450
Kilobytes).
A math puzzle from 1900 updated with some new math. Warning: do not
look at this unless you know what a Factorial is, and are willing to waste
some time with a programmable calculator...
A Professional geneology of the very famous people for whom I'm a
student or student's student or student's student's student. Includes
celebrities as various as Andre Segovia, Ezra Pound, Bertrand Russell, and
Albert Einstein.
Rollovers and links to over 110 Mystery authors, from a colorful
interactive "Periodic Table" as you remember from Chemistry...
What are the 100 best American Romance movies? The best 218 International
Romance movies of the 1990s? See these surveys and more, alphabetically,
chronologically, and ranked in order of popularity!
In Summer 2003 we launched a comprehensive encyclopedia of the biggest
category of fiction sold in North America: Romance Novels. Discover some
8,000 authors, tens of thousands of books, definitions, subgenres [such as
Time Travel Romances, Romantic Suspense...], and more!
In 2000 we launched a comprehensive encyclopedia of the American West:
Westerns in print, movies, television, and history. It is strong
in the first third of the alphabet ("A" though "J") with the rest being
added every day! 23 September 2003: added 139 more authors, for a total
of 581.
Your Humble Webmaster did Ph.D. research in biology (Artificial Life
and Nanotechnology) in the mid-1970s, and taught Ecology at the
experimental college of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
His [22 Sep 2000] page in The Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide may be
found at the above hotlink.
We have added megabytes of text for a complete and original Encyclopedia of the History of
Science, Engineering, Technology, and Literature. It starts at
13,000,000,000 BC with Cosmic History, goes millennium by millennium until
1 AD, then has a page per century until 1890 (when it becomes a page per
decade, with an emphasis on Science Fiction, where science and literature
intersect). Come browse through your past... to get a glimpse of where you
came from, and (for the decade 2000-2010) a sense of where the future may be!
one of the world's most comprehensive on-line encyclopedias of Mystery,
Crime, Thriller, and Detective literature and media. Includes over 1,174 annotated hotlinks
plus biographic and bibliographic information on over 1,911 authors who
have no known home pages, for a total of over 3,085 authors, and editors.
NEW!: over 1,000 fictional charcters, alphabetically mixed in with
authors.
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The great national hero of Scotland, Sir William Wallace, was recently
portrayed by Mel Gibson in the superb film "Braveheart." For six
centuries, Sir William Wallace has been an icon for freedom.
This is now linked to by the offocial Mel Gibson website.
The great national heroes of Scotland, Sir William Wallace and Robert the
Bruce, were recently portrayed in the superb film "Braveheart." See that
movie in the context of portraits of the heroes, castles,
battlefields, and legends of Scotland.
This page has been updated in August 2000.
The webmasters seriously recommend by this modern version of Yoga, which achieves
remarkable results in people willing to improve their minds and bodies.
This is now linked to by the offocial Mel Gibson website.
Who was Robert the Bruce, recently portrayed in the superb film
"Braveheart?" How did he unify Scotland?
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