Loci

Welcome to Loci, the online publication of the
Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL).

Loci Areas: Convergence, Resources, Developers, Departments

In Announcements Department:
  Information for MathFest (August 5-7 in Pittsburgh)
  Information for 2011 Joint Meetings (new dates: January 6-9)

In Commentaries Department:
  "What Does the iPad Mean for Math?" by Thomas E. Leathrum

In Supplements Department:
   Supplement to 'Fermat's Spiral and the Line Between Yin and Yang'
   (accompanies article to appear in upcoming American Mathematical Monthly)

Loci  Volume 1 Table of Contents

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Featured Items:
Life After Wolfram|Alpha: What You (and Your Students) Need to Know This article introduces several basic features of Wolfram|Alpha, provides examples, and discusses along the way how this new technology can influence what we do in our classrooms.		Google-opoly This article uses a game, called Google-opoly, played on a small directed graph to describe and model the Google PageRank algorithm.
A Gallery of Ray Tracing for Geometers This gallery of images and animations shows many examples of how the POVray ray-tracing software can be used to display examples in three-dimensional geometry,		More Features: Trisecting a Line Segment Thinking Outside the Box Seashells Visualizing Lie Subalgebras

Loci: Convergence Convergence provides a wealth of resources to help teach mathematics using its history. Featured: New Logarithms: Early History New Disquisition on \(\sqrt{3}\) New Biography of Jean-François Servois New Extracting Square Roots Made Easy Mathematical Treasures Go to Loci: Convergence		Loci: Resources Resources provides a select collection of free online learning materials which are available through the site. These materials have been classroom tested and peer reviewed. Featured: New Exploring Geometric Transformations New Law of Averages Applet Math Animations with SVG Activities for Real Analysis Go to Loci: Resources
Loci: Developers The Developers Area features articles of interest to those who develop online math software. Creating Photo-realistic Images and Animations Using the HTML5 canvas Element Review of 'Easy Java Simulations' Go to Loci: Developers		Loci: Departments Announcements Commentaries Supplements Go to Loci: Departments

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