Tom's Favorite Links

Here are a few of my favorite links, grouped in general categories but otherwise in no particular order.

Disclaimer: Appearance of a link to an organization or corporation on this list does not necessarily imply that I endorse the organization, corporation, its products, or its opinions.

Math
- Organizations
  Americal Mathematical Society (AMS) (of which I am an active member)
  Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) (I have let my membership in this organization lapse)
  Mathematics Association of America (MAA) (math education and pedagogy)
  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (industrial applications)
  National Science Foundation (a large source of grants in math basic research)
- General
  Math Archives at UT-Knoxville
  UC Davis frontend to XXX preprint archive server
  Math newsgroup (DejaNews)
- Logic and Set Theory
  Logic preprints on XXX (look for my article there!)
  Journal of Symbolic Logic (where my article was published, Sept. 1995)
  Shelah's preprints archive
  Logic newsgroup (DejaNews)
- Publishers
  Addison-Wesley-Longman (Thomas and Finney Calculus text)
  Wiley and Sons (Bartle and Sherbet Real text)
  McGraw-Hill (Brown and Churchill Complex text)
  Brooks-Cole-ITP (Tan Finite text)
  Prentice-Hall (Bradley Calculus text)
  Houghton-Mifflin (Larson Calculus text)
Software
- Mark-up
  TeX Users Group (TUG)
  Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (via TUG), mirrored at sunsite
  LaTeX2e -- see HTML introduction at Williams
  HTML (docs at W3C)
- Math -- Symbolic Algebra
  Maple
  Mathematica
- Systems
  Linux (which I currently use at work)
  Linux Software Map (home)
- Programming
  Java, ported to Linux by Blackdown
- Logic
  PVS (semi-automated theorem-prover from SRI)
Outdoors
- Locations
  National Park Service
  Alabama State Parks ( guide and map)
  Georgia State Parks
  USDA Forest Service (maintain National Forests)
  Yellowstone National Park
  Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  Little River Canyon National Preserve
  Desoto State Park
  Taladega National Forest
- Organizations
  National Parks Conservation Association (my wife and I are members)
  Sierra Club, Alabama Chapter (unfortunately, no local groups)
  Alabama Trails Association (doing trail construction nearby)
  Wild Alabama and WildLaw
- Equipment
  Coleman Campers by Fleetwood
  Coleman Camping Equipment
  Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)
  Campmor
  Camping World
Other Interests
- Music
  Association of Concert bands
  National Band Association
  Community Music Mailing List home page
  Great American Brass Band Festival
  North American Brass Band Association
  Folk Music newsgroup (DejaNews)
- Skepticism
  Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
- Public Broadcasting
  Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
  Public Broadcasting System (PBS) ("Nova," "Frontline," etc.)
  National Public Radio (NPR) ("Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "Car Talk," etc.)
  Public Radio International (PRI) ("Echoes," "What Do You Know," etc.)
  Minnesota Public Radio ("A Prairie Home Companion," etc.)
  Alabama Public Television
  Georgia Public Broadcasting (includes GPTV and Peach State Public Radio)
  WBHM Birmingham and WSGN Gadsden
  WLJS Jacksonville (on-campus)
- Astronomy
  Students for the Exporation and Development of Space (SEDS)
  Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Images (from SEDS Arizona chapter)
  Comet Hale-Bopp Images (from NASA JPL)
  1998 Leonid Meteor Shower (from NASA)
  Nine Planets Tour (from SEDS)
  The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
- College Retirement
  TIAA-CREF
  Retirement Systems of Alabama
- Magazines
  Scientific American
  Science News
  The Skeptical Inquirer
  Consumer Reports
Other Useful Web Sites
- Web Search Engines
  Dogpile
  Search.Com (from C|Net)
  AltaVista (from Digital)
  WebCrawler
  Lycos
  NetFind (from AOL)
- Web Shopping
  Amazon books
  CDNow music

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Revised - Feb. 18, 2002

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