LINKS

to various places, far and near

Ways to get around the web

There are many sites which have indexes to information on the web. Probably the most popular and comprehensive index is the Yahoo list, but also useful is the Global Network Navigator from O'Reilly. Good searching sites are Lycos and Alta Vista; Acme Labs provides an interface to many search engines which search not only the WWW, but also telephone directories, dictionaries, and other useful stuff. Also interesting is the Virtual Tourist, a map-based index to web servers by geographic location.

Mathematics

Of great utility is MathSciNet, which provides online access to Mathematical Reviews. Penn State maintains an extensive list of mathematics servers, which includes links to most math departments on the web, as well as electronic journals and preprint servers. The Berlin Center for Scientific Computing also keeps a very complete list of electronic publications.

Of particular interest is probably the American Mathematical Society. Some knowledge of the history of mathematics is a good thing for anybody interested in mathematics. Other useful mathematical sites are the Math Sources at U. Penn and the Math Software Archives. Or, of course, there's the MathSoft Unsolved Mathematics Problems page with (surprise) an ever-changing list of unsolved problems. Also entertaining is David Griffeath's Primordial Soup Kitchen and the Pi-server.

Other things

A nice set of reference items, including a dictionary, thesaurus, phone books, and so on is kept by Inter-Links.
A summary of current news headlines is available, and if you are considering actually going outside at some point, you might want to get a current weather report.
Some daily comics are at United Media's Comics Page, including Dilbert.

Closer to Home

You can look up phone numbers in the Stony Brook Campus Phone Directory, or investigate Other WWW Servers at StonyBrook. The USB home page has general information about USB, although that might not be obvious. And Webscope provides some general information about Long Island.

Link to Mathlab