Career in Science
- EURAXESS – one-stop-shop for science jobs in EU
Science Paper Archives
- arXiv.org – math and physics preprint server
- Google Scholar – the Big Brother, science style
- ScienceDirect – a big archive of journals
- Web of Science (Thomson CC) – what’s hot and what’s not
- JSTOR – they go far back in time…
- Scientific Commons – another unified search
Free Books/Documents
- Math textbooks – site 1, site 2, site 3
- Abramowitz and Stegun – a huge math functions handbook – all online
- ChaosBook – a free book on dynamical systems
Educational Videos/Video Lectures
- MSRI Video Lectures
- IMA Video Lectures
- Smooth sphere inversion proof made into a video
- ScienceHacks – supposedly “scientist reviewed” catalog of science videos – no credentials but still interesting
- TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design – interesting scientific and philosophical talks
- Signs of Intelligent Life on YouTube – list of “smart” online videos
- Steve Strogatz Nonlinear Dynamics Lab (video link at bottom of page)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – MIT’s legendary course on computer science
- Videolectures.net – a repository of video lectures
- Dynamical Systems and Chaos – a course at Texas A&M with video lectures
Online educational sites
- Scholarpedia.org – peer reviewed science encyclopedia – Dynamical Systems
- SIAM Dynamical Systems Tutorial – tutorials on dynamical systems by “the community”
- Wolfram Mathworld
- Wolfram Scienceworld
- PlanetMath – another online math resource
- Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures – so you know your queues and deques
- SUNY Stony Brook Algorithm repository – list of common CS problems and references to algorithms that solve them
- Electronic publishing tips – anyone writing anything in science should read this
- Software Carpentry – teaching scientists good software design practices
Math and Science Software/Libraries/Languages…
- MATLAB Central – exchange Matlab programs and code snippets
- Matrix Market – if you need a matrix, they have it
- Mathtools.net – math and science programs and snippets in many programming languages
- MacResearch – a resource for scientific computing on Macs
- TeX Users Group – all the help you need for The Typesetting System (text processors are so last Fall)
- LaTeX Documentation

