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Welcome to the Mathematics Portal! This page connects visitors to the learning resources that have been developed by various Wikiversity content development projects. Wikiversity participants who are interested in mathematics are invited to create and develop learning projects and learning resources and help organize them by developing this portal.
Exercises at Introduction to differentiation lead participants through calculations of compound interest that introduce Euler's number (2.7182818284...) and derivatives of functions.
Bessel functions arise in many mathematical models such as those for vibrating surfaces.
When mathematically analyzing a vibrating drum the boundary conditions lead to solutions that are harmonic functions. When using cylidrical coordinates, the solutions are sines, cosines or Bessel functions (in the radial direction).
Marin Mersenne's name is widely known because of his interest in prime numbers that are one less than a power of two. Mersenne also did research in the area of the theory of music and musical instruments (see Wikipedia). Participants at Mersenne primes are encouraged to join the distributed computing project that allows the computing power of personal computers to help search for Mersenne prime numbers.
The Euler-Lagrange equation of classical mechanics was discovered during attempts to find a curve for which the time taken by a frictionless particle sliding down it under uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point.
Many mathematics-related learning resources are for specific scientific sub-disciplines and can be found with the aid of other Wikiversity portals: Engineering and Technology - Life Sciences - Mathematics - Physical Sciences - Social Sciences - - General Science Portal
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Schools Mathematics - Computer Science - Economics
Topics Applied Mathematics - Calculus - College Algebra - Euclidean Geometry - Group theory - Higher Algebra - Topology - Knot Theory - Pure Mathematics - Statistics - Theoretical Physics - Particle Physics - Statistics - Finance - Actuarial Mathematics - Mathematical Physics - High School Mathematics - Analysis - Virasoro algebra - Vector Calculus
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- Introduction to Topology
- Knot Theory
- Mathematical Physics
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"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal Turing Machine." -Alan Turing
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"Stephen Smale awarded Wolf Prize in mathematics" by Robert Sanders
Stephen Smale, known for his work on Topology, the study of dynamical systems and a list of 18 problems in mathematics to be solved in the 21st century, known as Smale's problems.
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