UF Mathematics

Web Resources

• File Transfer
  • Free SSH for secure shell and secure copy software
• Netiquette
  • Netiquette Guide [FAU]
  • Avoid public distribution of individuals' E-mail addresses [Kamens and Lamb]
  • U.S. Copyright Office
• Networking
• Search engines
  • Alta Vista (DEC's Web-searcher, good with diacritic marks)
  • Lycos - a Web-searcher
  • Google (webmaster's favorite, no advertising)
  • Yahoo - A guide to WWW
  • WebCrawler Searching
• Software and other resources
  • AMS index of software for mathematics
  • Apache Software Foundation
  • Guide to Available Mathematical Software from NIST
  • Penn State's Mathematics Software
  • NCSA Meta-Index of web resources
  • NCSA Mosaic Home Page
  • Netscape Handbook
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Logic Technology (recently started 6/00)
  • Symbolic and numeric math software
    • Macsyma Inc.
    • Maple (Waterloo)
    • Mathcad
    • Mathematica
    • Matlab
  • UF SODA Shoppe
• Typesetting mathematics
  • LaTeX: A Beginning by Paul Humke (with links on emacs, basic unix commands)
  • HOWTO LaTeX (TeTeX)
  • TeX from UPenn
• Web authoring resources
  • Jutta Degener discusses good hypertext writing, editing, maintenance
  • Online Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. (the classic)
  • HTML Guides, intros from World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
    • David Raggett's Guide to getting started with HTML
    • David Raggett's more advanced features includes coding of accented letters and how to have text flow around images
    • Tim Berners-Lee's W3C Style guide for online hypertext gives basic points with a nice, short outline form, and a printable version.
  • W3C software to valid documents, tidy html, promote web access
    • Clean up your web pages with HTML Tidy (including ones created with word)
    • HTML Validation Service
    • Checkpoints for web content accessibility
  • Doctor HTML offers single page analysis, including spellchecking, deadlink checking, table and form syntax checking, image analysis
  • VisiBone has web safe color information in its Webmaster's Color Lab
  • NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML