The single biggest problem we face is that of visualisation.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988) [Math. Gaz. (1996); vol(80), 267]
Cafe Scientifique | Stewarts coffee | n-Category Cafe | The Drawbridge | Symmetry Magazine | CERN Bulletin
Doctors.net.uk | Google | World time-zones (Nottingham) | BT telephone directory | Postcodes | Transport-direct
Periodic table | Nautical Almanac online | Casio calculator
AbeBooks | Rare books (France)
Journals: Nature | Science | ScienceNOW
science journals and TOC | ScienceDirect | UnboundMedicine-medline
Natural History Museum (BM; London)
Charles Darwin (1809--1882) Wikipedia | Darwin online | Beagle project | Darwin200 | Nature/darwin/
The British Library (London) Homepage | Integrated Catalogue
Nottingham Univ Library Integrated Catalogue
The WWW Virtual Library (Natural Science and Mathematics)
Digital Library of open source books (Cornell Univ)
Internet Archive of open source books
Copac merged online catalogues of 24 major UK university libraries
Project Gutenberg access to online books
Google books access to online books
Wikipedia book sources list of sources for free online books
Wikibooks free online books in WIKI format
Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook online-anaesthesia resource.
Anaesthesoa-MCQ anaesthesia resource.
American Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) Homepage | Newsletters archive
American Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Homepage | Newsletters
Anesthesiology (journal) Homepage
Anesthesia and Analgesia (journal) Homepage | archive
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anaesthesia
ASA Wood Library / Anaesthesia Museum
Bronchoscopy International online-bronchoscopy resource.
Peter Slinger's thoracic & bronchoscopy website
Virginia Hosp radiology dept chest xray resource.
Unbound-Medicine a free interface to MEDLINE
Royal College of Anaesthetists homepage
BioMedCentral Medical Informatics and Decision Making
GRIP Glucose Regulation for Intensive care Patients -- open-source software
--- see Vogelzang M et al (2005) Design and implementation of GRIP: a computerised glucose control system at a surgical intensive care unit.
NHS NHS connecting-for-health web site
Drugs, Medicines and Devices NHS DM+D web site | DM+D registration | DM+D download
SCATA Society of Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia
ESCTAIC European Society of Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
NISCA Northern Ireland Society of Computing in Anaesthesia
Computing History Museum at Stanford University.
Linux Wikipedia entry
Linus Torvalds creator of the Linux operating system
Linux Online | Linux documentation | Linux Journal
Mandriva Linux | Mandriva documentation
Perl websites perl.org | Perlmonks | CPAN archive
Natural Docs an OS Perl program-documentation system
Math::Polynomial::Solve a Perl module for solving polynomials written by John Gamble
GNUplot websites homepage | FAQ | demo pages
w3schools (homepage) | TAG page
Free FTP servers for MS-Windows | CoreFTP
W3C markup validation service (for checking www pages)
free Handheld phone HTML-browser simulators Opera | Openwave | Nokia
TeX is the open-source (free) typesetting system developed by the Stanford computing professor Donald Knuth; (1938--), and is available for all computer platforms. LaTeX is the associated system of TeX macro packages created (initially at least) by Leslie Lamport (1941--). Both of these computer scientists are detailed in the book Out of their minds--the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists by Shasha D and Lazere C (1995) [pub: Copernicus, Springer-Verlag].
LaTeX (and friends) has been greatly extended over the years and is currently the world's leading typesetting system. The XeTeX/XeLaTeX engines give native support to Unicode, and facilitate the easy use of modern font formats (eg, True Type, Open Type).
Installation: Complete implementations of TeX and associated systems for all computer platforms, as follows: Unix/Linux (TeXLive), MS Windows (ProText), MacOS (MacTex). Although all of these are freely available for download, they are large systems (1-2GB) and are most conveniently installed from the annual DVD known as the TeX Collection. The 2009 TeX Collection is available from the TUG Store for about 50$. Alternatively, consider joining your local TeX Users Group, as the DVD is a free membership benefit.
TeX Users Group homepage TUG
UK TeX Users Group homepage ukTUG
TEXonWEB An experimental interactive facility for testing/writing/storing TeX/LaTeX code
The TeX family in 2009 recent article on TeX and LaTeX
Asymptote a powerful vector graphics system for use with LaTeX
SVGLaTeX SVG graphics
MathTran WIKI | MathTran (home) ---TeX-based online translation of mathematical content (Open University)
XeTeX Companion (Goossens M; January 2010) [112 pages,3MB]
The Unicode Standard, version 5
The History of Computer Programming Languages
Lorem Ipsum `dummy text' for testing typesetting
The Pulfrich effect (discovered by the physicist Carl Pulfrich 1858-1927) is a most unusual visual phenomenon with interesting mathematical, vision physiology, and clinical applications, which is occasionally exploited for making 3D television programs (a memorable Dr Who episode was made this way--see New Scientist article (1993); 13 November, p.23---as well as an episode of `3rd rock from the sun'). The Pulfrich website is the main location for all things Pulfrich. The 1922 paper in which he describes the Pulfrich-effect is as follows:
Pulfrich C (1922).
Die Stereoskopie im Dienste der isochromen und heterochromen Photometrie.
Naturwissenschaften; vol 10, pp 553--564.
Am Math Soc (AMS) Notices | Feature column (search) | Bulletin | Maths moments | Maths in the media
Topics from AMS feature column Homepage | genome | google | navigation | CAT scan | medical imaging
Jan Wassenaar's 2dcurves website
Earliest known uses of some words in mathematics Jeff Miller's website
Digital Maths Library (DML)
Digital Library of the Historical Maths Book Collection (Cornell Univ)
Euclid Project (OS mathematics and statistics resource)
American Mathematical Monthly | Mathematical Gazette | PLUS (online maths journal)
JSTOR science archive | arXiv e-Print archive | arXiv frontend
Galois groups (mathpages website).
Euler Wikipedia | EulerProject: problems for solution | Euler Society Newsletter
Some early papers on polynomials
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William Freeman Daniell (1817-1865)
WF Daniell was an English army surgeon and botanist. He was instrumental in bringing Calabar beans from West Africa to Edinburgh pharmacologists who then discovered their physostigmine content. Edinburgh physicians then went on to show that physostigmine was the first anticholinergic. Daniell collected plant specimens in Africa, Jamaica, China, and several plants have been named after him. His specimens are housed in the Natural History Museum herbarium and also in the herbarium at Kew Gardens (London). See also online biography