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zak
06-07-2009, 06:50
FREE Online Math magazines for the general reader
http://plus.maths.org/ now issue 51
example of articles:
Curious quaternions :
http://plus.maths.org/issue32/features/baez/index.html
Ubiquitous octonions :
http://plus.maths.org/issue33/features/baez/index.html


Ivars Peterson's MathTrek Archives:
http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathland_archives.html

Math Trek:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/dispatches/type/column/collection_id/2/title/Math_Trek

Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devangle.html

Petr Schreiber
06-07-2009, 08:56
Thanks,

that is some interesting reading!

matthew
08-07-2009, 20:33
The link to Keith Devlin's site looks good, he's written some interesting books over the years. :read:

kryton9
09-07-2009, 01:06
I finally got a chance to read some of the articles. Octonions, that is the first time I have heard of them. It is cool that it could be useful to string theory. Those guys back then were really ahead of their time.