World Wide Web Links for Students
in Mathematics or Related Disciplines

Career Opportunities for Mathematics Majors

Information about career opportunities for mathematics majors can be found on the World Wide Web. Try the following links:

1. Mathematical Sciences Career Information, a web site jointly maintained by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
2. Mathematics Careers Bulletin Board and Career Planning Resources from AMS and SIAM
3. Mathematical Fields and Application Lists provided by applied mathematicians working in industry and government
4. SIAM's WWW Undergraduate Page
5. Mathematics that Counts, featuring applied and computational mathematics research that have led to increased productivity, improvements in product design, solutions to problems related to health and the environment, etc.
6. Mathematical Scientists at Work, courtesy of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
7. Individual case studies of mathematical scientists at work, from the MAA
8. From the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, career information in mathematics and in statistics

Interesting Sites Aimed at Mathematics Students

• The Math Forum (Swarthmore)
• Introductory Math (Vanderbilt)

Graduate Study in Mathematics

Are you contemplating graduate school in mathematics? If so, you might want to examine the list of Top Twenty Mathematics Ph.D. Programs or the Young Mathematicians Network WWW Site.

Guidebooks for Mathematics Majors

...can be found on the World Wide Web. These too may offer glimpses of life as a mathematics student at other institutions. Here is one such guidebook from St. Olaf College and another from the University of Wisconsin.

Other Mathematics-Related Links

1. The Mathematics Archives, an enterprise supported by the National Science Foundation, the State of Tennessee Science Alliance, and the Departments of Mathematics at Calvin College and the University of Tennessee
2. The Mathematics Archives' Images and Mathematics
3. WWW servers at college and university mathematics departments
4. The WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics
5. Oodles of Mathematics Information Servers
6. Mathematics listing from the Yahoo! Internet directory
7. TradeWave Corporation's mathematics links
8. The e-math WWW home page of the American Mathematical Society
9. Mathematical Association of America WWW server
10. From the Center for the Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures at the University of Minnesota, the Gallery of Interactive Geometry and an image from the graphics archive
11. George W. Hart's Pavilion of Polyhedreality
12. The Mathematics Quotation Server from Furman University

What would it be like ...

... to be a student at another college or university? How does my academic program compare to those offered elsewhere? Some answers can be found on the Internet. For example, you can follow the links below to examine ...

Mathematics courses offered at selected American colleges and universities

1. California Institute of Technology mathematics courses and applied mathematics courses.
2. Mathematics courses for undergraduates at Columbia University.
3. Dartmouth College mathematics courses.
4. Harvard mathematics courses.
5. University of Illinois mathematics courses.
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematics courses.
7. University of Michigan ...
   • selected mathematics courses at the 100-299 level.
   • selected mathematics courses at the 300-499 level.
   • selected mathematics courses at the 500-599 level.
8. Princeton mathematics courses for fall semester 1996.
9. Williams College mathematics courses.
10. University of Wisconsin mathematics courses.

Last but not least ...

... is the World Wide Web Home Page of WSU's own Department of Mathematics and Statistics!

This page was last changed on April 1, 1999. Send comments and suggestions to Jim Vance jvance@euler.math.wright.edu.