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Local Links

Math Department Home Page Washington University Libraries The Mathematics Library From a WU computer, you can access here all back issues of the American Mathematical Monthly (and about a dozen other journals) beginning in the 19th century, up to 1996:  from the Library's page, select the JSTOR link (under "Full Text Sources"), and then select "Browse."  The WU Career Center Page

 

Local Interest and Local Trivia

Math Gets its Due  A St. Louis Post Dispatch article about mathematics as a career (from Sunday February 19, 2006), with mentions of several WU faculty and graduate students. Department Faculty The Struggle to End Homelessness joint work of  Professor Carol North (W.U. School of Medicine), Professor David Pollio (George Warren Brown School of Social Work), and the Math Department's Professor Edward Spitznagel. Mathematics and Plastic Surgery  (work of Prof. Steven Krantz) Collaboration, computers changing the nature of mathematical proofs, a WU Record article with Professor Steve Krantz Can Mathematicians Learn to Write?  An article about Professor Steven Krant The Deborah and Franklin Terrer Haimo Award  to Professor Edward Spitznagel The Beauty of Pure Mathematics and Professor John McCarthy Mathematics and Radiation Oncology   (Work of Professor Victor Wickerhauser)          Professor Ron Freiwald   A WU Record article about Prof. Ron Freiwald               How did the Washington University get its name? The Math Department's building, Cupples I, is named after whom? Which math professor, in 2002,  won the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics? What math professor was also a Chancellor of Washington University? The Ross R. Middlemiss Math Majors' Lounge: Who was Ross R. Middlemiss? What 19th Century Terrorist Studied Math at WU ? A bust of what mathematician sits between Cupples I and Crow Halls? What do you know about the only statue of George Washington on campus? What do you know about your Alma Mater? Who designed the speed bumps on Hoyt Drive? The portrait of Professor Guido Weiss in Cupples I Hall (look above the entrance to room 199) Other historical facts about the university.

 

Professional Associations and Related Information Career Opportunities and Jobs

AMS Undergraduate Page  Good information about graduate school, summer programs, special semsters, jobs and interships, etc.  Worth visiting. Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Student Page Information about summer opportunities,careers, career profiles of people working in math related  jobs, links to other sites, ... Online Job Information and Listing Services This list is maintained by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Other Sites for Women in Mathematics  The SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Student Page. This site also has information about short term and summer jobs. Careers in Applied Mathematics (SIAM) A Mathematical Applications Index         A SIAM site of applications provided by working applied mathematicians. Should You Prepare Differently for a Nonacademic Career?         Written for graduate students. but the same general principles apply to undergraduates. Project for Nonacademic Employment         A joint AMS-MAA-SIAM project to inform students about jobs in nonacademic settings. The Society of Actuaries (SOA)         The home pages of both the SOA and the CAS (below) contain information useful to students interested in actuarial careers.  The SOA page also contains information about the actuarial exams. The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) Be An Actuary: Information about careers in actuarial work, maintained by the SOA and CAS. Actuaries at the Social Security Administration: the site contains information about actuarial work at the SSA; it also has a link     to a number of other sites of interest to actuaries and actuarial students Information from The Actuarial Grads Network Actuarial Exams:  information about the exam process, sample exams, and application forms. ACTEX,  a commercial site which sells study information for actuarial exams. The site also has a "job posting" page. D.W. Simpson & Company : actuarial job searches John Culver Wooddy Scholarships   John Culver Wooddy Scholarship. Award winners will receive $2,000 scholarships, established by the estate of John Culver Wooddy, a distinguished actuary who set aside funds to provide scholarships to actuarial students.  You may need to e-mail the Foundation to be sure this program is still available; the web page hasn't been recently updated. Eligibility:  Undergraduate students who will receive their undergraduate degree by ****. Students must rank in the top quartile of their class and have successfully completed one actuarial examination. Students must be recommended by a professor from their school (limit one application per school). Immediate relatives of members of the Board of Trustees of the Actuarial Foundation or committee members, or Boards of affiliated organizations are not eligible to apply. Careers in Statistics Brought to you by the American Statistical Association Information about jobs with the Bureau of Labor Statistics WU Dept. of Education: Secondary Teaching Certification Information from the Missouri Department of Education The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Teach For America         A national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates, all of whom commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools. At least one recent graduate has joined Teach for America. Math for America Math for America is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve math education in secondary public schools in the United States by recruiting, training, and retaining outstanding mathematics teachers. MfA currently operates two programs in New York City, the MfA Fellowship, to increase the number of mathematically talented individuals going into teaching, and the MfA Master Teacher Program, to support outstanding mathematics teachers already in the classroom.

The Peace Corps "The toughest job you'll ever love" Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Use this site to check out "official" information on all sorts or occupations.

 

Looking for a Graduate Program in Mathematics?

Information from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Graduate Record Exam Information (GRE's) Grad and Professional School: Career  Center Resources for WUSTL Students Links to Home Pages of US Math Departments These links can be very useful to gather preliminary material about math departments around the U.S.  Use them to decide which schools you'd like to contact for more information. Links to Webpages in Math, Physics, & Engineering at U.S. College and Universities List of Statistics Department Servers At many schools, mathematics and statistics are in separate departments Graduate School Information This site has a ton of information about finding a graduate program, surviving in a graduate program, etc.  (Rankings are always "dicey" so take any you find with a grain of salt.) NSF Graduate Fellowship Information National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (NDSEGF) National Physical Science Consortium: Graduate Fellowships for Women & Minorities

 

Math History Sites

The MacTutor History of Math Archive A great site, with lots of topics and biographical information Links to more than 70 sites with information about the history of mathematics (from The British Society for the History of Mathematics) Links to many sites of the history of mathematics (from the Math Archives at University of Tennessee) Links to many sites about history of mathematics (from the Math Forum) A History of Math Site From Trinity College, Dublin. Links to lots of other sites. History of Mathematics Links: Sites Related to Individual Mathematicians Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics Galileo The Galileo Project, a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. Biographies of Women in Mathematics From Agnes Scott College Women in Math From the University of Oregon Mathematicians Born or Deceased on This Day And other historical stuff.

 

Math Problems and Contests

Contests            MAA Missouri Mathematics Competition            The Putnam Exam Site            Putnam Competition Problems Archive Problems from Purdue University Macalester College Stetson University National Science Teachers' Association