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This directory contains links in 7 categories all relating to
science and that I find interesting. I wish to state that under
no circumstances I was paid in any form whatsoever for adding links
in the list below!
You can also found my prefered apps for iPad on my french blog.
If there were also three links to highlight of
all this is Google,
Wikipedia and
YouTube that we owe many loans!
EXACT
SCIENCES
ChronoMath, small chronology of mathematics, is
an educational document that Serge Mehl
is constantly renewing since 1988 as a math tutor in French
Africa where he was cooperating for many years. More than 450 mathematicians
(and their work) are reviewed ...! Must see!
http://www.chronomath.com
Visits:
7334
This site offers mathematics news, an
encyclopedia with dictionary parts, biographies and formulas,
as well as individual files on various mathematical topics and
a forum.
This site is particularly impressive with respect to the amount
of information available for download. http://www.bibmath.net
Visits: 8409
A good site dealing with some relevant topics
in physics (synophysiqs). The design could be reviewed in terms
of navigation using frames ... but we must still focus on the
content quality and it largely predominates. http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/physique/perso/blanquet/frame3.htm Visits: 8689
2,000 pages of Math documents (course,
corrected exercises, homeworks) for high school,
preparatory
classes, graduate and internal aggregation. There is also a LaTeX
forum. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gilles.costantini/ Visits: 10319
arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers.
The time elapsing between the time a researcher completes a project
and when his work is published in a newspaper may be about a
year. At the time scale of research it's a long time. The introduction
of the arXiv is therefore a way to overcome this time
and cost problem. http://arxiv.org Visits:
4961
The multidisciplinary HAL open archive is intended for the deposit and the free
dissemination of research level scientifical published and unpublished results
and theses from French of foreign educational institutions, public or private
laboratories. There is even scientific books published
recently
by prestigious French publishing houses. http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ Visits: 2060
PUBLISHING
- MAGAZINES
We can consider this proposed website as the equivalent of
the previous, but for the French engineers. However, it is qualitatively
better and there are approximatively the same number of files
but more homogeneous. The only regret is perhaps the
access
to
certain
elements
which is
not always easy the first time http://www.techniques-ingenieur.fr Visits: 6912
Absolutely excellent and a must see! Many full courses of the Ecole
Polytechnique (France) are published and available for free and
to download in PDF format (is it going to last?). About 1,000
educational resources are available in total, whose quality is
highly variable,
but whose relevance and rarity of subjects is always equal. http://catalogue.polytechnique.fr Visits: 9424
The website itself is not great (which is a pity) but the magazine
for which he offers to subscribe (against payment) is well for
a visit for poeple who like mathematics and their
actuality. http://tangente.poleditions.com/ Visits: 5347
A magazine of the same family as Tangent but at a much higher technical and
academic staff by my opinion. The content is particularly oriented on pure
mathematics but without direct and explicit applications to physics, engineering
or economics. http://www.quadrature.info Visits:
473
The website itself is not great either (which is a pity, too) but
some of the proposed works are just historical! http://urss.ru Visits: 6795
Excellent website with a huge resource (links directory) of electronic
documentation dealing with mathematics only. The site contains
links to the pages
of the authors of the documents (if not what should be a considerable
server ...). http://mathslinker.chez-alice.fr Visits: 7558
This site contains an online library of publications of the greatest
mathematicians of the 20th and 19th century. Must See! http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/wyszukiwarka.php Visits: 6231
Reprints of fundamental works on mathematics, physics, history
and philosophy of science. http://www.gabay.com
Visits: 6225
Eyrolles Editions - Excellent website containing
numerous works of quality in English and French. This website propose
the
books
of several publishers including Wiley, Springer, etc. It is worthwhile
to
go take a
look in the sections "Mathematics" and "Physics" there are good things... http://www.eyrolles.com
Visits: 6137
Dunod Editions - Propose contemporary literature (under and postgraduate).
The books of this publishing house are mostly excellent. Personally
they
are technically (but not pedagogically) my favorite,
because often the developments are very detailed. http://www.dunod.com
Visits: 6028
Springer Editions - Propose scientific literature of Phd
level. The site navigation is not easy because the choices are
arranged
a bit anyhow but if the proposed works are very technical and high
level ... very high level . http://www.springer.de
Visits: 6085
The NUMDAM program, led by MathDoc (UMS 5638 CNRS - UJF) on behalf
of CNRS, provides retrospective digitization of mathematics funds
published in France. http://www.numdam.org Visits:
5060
Wrox Editions - Propose computer development books (expert level).
As far as I know (and I think so), this publishing house is the
worldwide
reference
in the field of books about programming languages. http://www.wrox.com
Visits: 5674
Cambridge University Press
Editions - Propose also postdoc level scientific literature
. Somewhat the equivalent of Springer Editions but the website
structure is a little bit better. You
can particularly appreciate the opportunity to subscribe for free
to
receive regularly their catalog. http://uk.cambridge.org
Visits: 5585
Online theses (provided by the CNRS). You can rarely
get something relevant from a thesis, as it almost always lack
details of the calculations
but ... at least it lets you control if you do not reinvent the
wheel and helps you sometimes to draw some innovative ideas. http://tel.ccsd.cnrs.fr
Visits: 5888
The Digital Library of France (BNF) offers
a free download of the scientific literature (among others) whose
copyrights have fallen after 75 years. The download system is not
user friendly, but you can found very relevant works. PDFs are
often more than 10 MB so take care if have a small to those of
low flow. http://gallica.bnf.fr
Visits: 6698
The Physical Review Letters (PRL) search
engine (scientific papers) offers against registration and payment
(sic) access to scientific research articles in theoretical
and experimental physics published for over 100
years. The level of detail of the articles offered
is often not
very high
but this
is not the main objective for specialists. http://prola.aps.org/search
Visits:
5836
Lavoisier Editions - Very good publisher
offering books in the highly specialized field of electronic,
electrical, civil, computer engineering etc. You
can also particularly appreciate the opportunity to subscribe for
free to
receive regularly their great catalog.
See especially the "Hermes Science" and "Tech & Doc" link of this publisher. http://www.lavoisier.fr
(www.editions-hermes.fr
+ www.tec-et-doc.com)
Visits: 5358
World Scientific Editions - This american
publisher provides provides a wide range of high-level
physical
sciences and mathematics litterature (see the wide range of scientific
sections corresponding on their site). http://www.worldscibooks.com
Visits:
ASSOCIATIONS
myScience.ch gives an overview of science, research, universities, companies
and other research centers in Switzerland. The site provides practical information
on jobs, funding and lives in Switzerland and also science news to researchers,
scientists, academics and anyone interested in science. It has a higher proportion
of articles in German ... even in the French version... http://www.myscience.ch
Visits: 2410
The Rationalist Union aims to promote the role of reason in the
intellectual debate as in the public debate, in front of all irrational
excesses. It strives to make available to everyone the opportunity
to access an intelligible conception of the world and the life.
She strike for a State that remains secular and assume its function
of protecting against all forms of indoctrination. http://www.union-rationaliste.org
Visits: 4861
The American Society of Mathematics is an association of professional
mathematicians dedicated to the interests of research and teaching
of mathematics,
what it does in the form of various free publications and conferences,
and prizes awarded to mathematicians. http://www.ams.org
Visits: 5500
The American Physical Society is a scientific society founded in
May 20, 1899, based in the U.S., very active in the field of scientific
research in physics. http://www.aps.org Visits: 5132
The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organization
whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe. This
society propose a
subscription to it's Europhysicsnews magazine
and many other things. http://www.eps.org
Visits: 5118
JOBS
Here is a
list of websites for job positions especially destinate to swiss
physicists and mathematicians ... (however, a link is only
for U.S.
territory!).
So
the descriptions are often in German (...) and the job positions
for the banking sector (who respresents ~10-15% of employment
in
Switzerland
from what I know ...). Some offers are linked to more general sites
like the famous jobup.ch well known in Switzerland.
Canal-U: The french universitites web TV. Many quality resources
are avalaible (under and postgraduate videos,
online conferencing, e-learning, etc). http://www.canal-u.education.fr
Visits:
5679
Cité-Sciences: Viewing video-conferences,
or listening to audiotapes on popular topics of physics and astronomy (+ others)
popularized. http://www.cite-sciences.fr
Visits: 4688
On Canal Académie, academics, specialists in physics, mathematics,
humanities, philosophy, sociology, law and jurisprudence, economics,
politics and finance, history, geography and demography and
political science will share their thoughts on the news and
society developments. http://www.canalacademie.com
Visits: 4638
OTHER
SCIENCES
Website with many pages and a huge amount of interesting solved
exercises. Unfortunately, this website became paying with access
for a limited period ... the price is very low and it may still
be appropriate to pay for quality. http://www.web-sciences.com
Visits: 6276
This is a multidisciplinary e-learning portal (link directory)
offering free access to a selection of over 1,200 links to online
courses
in
French
universities or high schools of engineering. There is the worst
as the best but you
still often found links that are excellent. http://eunomie.u-bourgogne.fr/elearning/
Visits: 8094
Futura-Sciences is website for the popularization of pure and exact
sciences with news about sciences and technologies,
issues on many topics, scientific forums with debate and discussiosn
... (the physcis forum is especially well
attended). http://www.futura-sciences.com
Visits: 6638
Astrosurf is a portal of links (directory)
for French amateur astronomers. There is also astronomy forums
astronomy,
announcements, free astronomy websites hosting, ephemeris
and all the clubs and associations of French astronomy. You can
particularly found the
famous
site of Thierry Lombry (here). http://www.astrosurf.com
Visits: 5056
The C.E.A. is the French Commissariat à
l'Energie Atomique. The site offers news and interesting files
on particular areas of advanced physics. One can also find free
educational resources for teachers (slide shows and posters). http://www.cea.fr
Visits: 5153
Here is a site that, if I was a child, would have made me happy
... and the misery of my parents. It's not so much the content
that is interesting but especially the online store (eStore)
which offers
a hundred gadgets and educational games for passionate of science.
Attention to not spend too much! http://www.xump.com/
Visits: 4413
This website on geophysics is a little happiness (subject rarely
treated properly and in a professional manner on the internet).
It is very well
illustrated
and
the explanations are clear and concise. Perhaps we can regret
the absence of a compilation of articles in a single PDF,
but so far I have not seen better on the subject in terms
of content quality, access and presentation of topics. http://www.geopedia.fr
Visits: 4408
SOFTWARES
Very interesting website with a lot of downloadable tools for
physicists, mathematicians and engineers. Must See!! http://www.mathtools.net Visits: 7424
Specialist of scientific software, Integral Software is official
distributor of Maple, Origin, Mathcad and many other softwares
for editing
and scientific computing in many areas. http://www.intesoft.com Visits: 4448
Minitab is the leading software for engineers working in industry and applying
statistical process control (see Chapter Industrial Engineering) as part of
their work or making any statistical study in the context of R&D. http://www.minitab.com Visits: 2528
Isograph is an excellent suite of software for engineers working in industry
and applying the techniques of preventive maintenance (reliability, FMEA) and
decision support (see chapter of Theory Of Games And Decision). http://ww.isograph-software.com Visits: 707
JMP is for me the best known software for design of experiments at this date.
His pedagogical structured and the very good avalaible documentation
(books) with
mathematical proofs of the approach used by the software is well appreciated. http://www.jmp.com Visits: 1540
Official website of the excellent Maple symbolic computation software
used for many examples in the different chapters of Sciences.ch.
The website also offers lots of documentation and plugins to download. http://www.mapleapps.com Visits: 5323
TANAGRA is a data mining powerful freeware (in English) for education
and research. It implements a set of data mining methods (more than 100) in
the field of statistical
exploratory data analysis, machine learning and databases. This is my favorite
logicile data mining because of its simplicity of use and uncluttered user
interface. http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/tanagra/ Visits: 2921
Official website of Matlab calculation and simulation software.
I'm not a fan but this is an essential tool in some businesses,
especially for the SimuLink part. This is somewhat of a "must
have" for engineers as well as LabView. http://www.mathworks.com Visits: 5095
Official website of the company Statistica. A worldwide reference
in the field of statistical analysis, data mining and statistical
process control that stands a priori
in a handkerchief with IBM SPSS. http://www.statsoft.com Visits: 4840
COMSOL Multiphysics (formerly FEMLAB) is an excellent interactive
environment for the modeling of industrial and scientific applications
based on partial differential equations (PDEs) using finite element
methods (more eays to use than ANSYS). A must have for engineers
and researchers (for
those who can afford to buy the license of course ..)! http://www.comsol.fr Visits: 4317
Crystal Ball is a MS Excel add-in for probabilistic simulation
(Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube). With more than 100,000 licenses,
this is both the MS Excel add-in the world's best selling and
the simulation tool with the world's best selling for THIS SOFTWARE.
Its success is due to the combination of its high usability and
rich functionality in the field of operations research, optimization
and simulation. http://www.decisioneering.com Visits: 4341
Palisade @ Risk is an add-in suite for MS Excel and MS Project for
probabilistic simulation (Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube). It's joint integration
with MS Project
and MS Excel and its calculations modules based on genetic algorithms,
neural networks and its add-in of decision theory makes it a coveted tool
for high executive
officers of large companies and high level engineers in the field
finance, quality, project management and production. http://www.palisade-europe.com Visits: 3269
The Decision Analysis software edited by TreeAge (DATA) allows
users to build, analyze and distribute tree analysis, Markov
models
and influence diagrams. The DATA models incorporate visually
quantitative and qualitative aspects related to business decisions
to provide a tool to assist in projects during analysis of complex
risks. http://www.treeage.com Visits:
4267
MathType is a powerful equation editor (software used for this
website) to import/export MathML or TeX or you can run in it stand-alone
application. With a toolbar, it also fits perfectly with
the programs of the MS Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 suite (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint), but also with 500 other softwares (specifically
math softwares, or
not). http://www.dessci.com
Visits: 5222
Scilab (contraction of Scientific Laboratory) is a free software,
developed at INRIA Rocquencourt (France). It is a numerical computing
environment that enables fast numeric resolutions and graphics
commonly encountered in applied mathematics. http://www.scilab.org Visits: 5120
Official website of the famous dynamic geometry software: Cabri
(worldwide reference in this domain) primarily destinated for the
learning of geometry in schools. It
can animate geometric figures, unlike those drawn on the blackboard.
It comes to plane geometry or for geometry in 3D. It is the ancestor
of all dynamic geometry software. http://www.cabri.com Visits: 5254
Website of a math teacher who developed a very good freeware
for many relevant charts, integration calculations, simulations
of statistics and probabilities easily and playfully in the classroom
(College level). http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrice.rabiller/SineQuaNon Visits: 5746
ACDLabs develops the excellent Chemsketch software for molecules
modeling and design (2D, 3D) with access to certain physical and
chemical properties. This is a very useful tool also to prepare
handouts or scientific articles (publications). http://www.acdlabs.com Visits: 5216
Excellent high-level software for the design of civil structures based on finite
element methods (not misused in Switzerland for simple or complex projects
and studies
for engineers). http://www.scia-online.com Visits:
459
Maxima is a computer algebra freeware, falling under GNU GPL under the package
Macsyma, the symbolic calculation software originally developed for the needs
of U.S.
Department
of Energy. Maxima can do arithmetic, polynomials, matrices, integration,
derivation, the calculation of series, limits, resolutions of systems of
differential equations, etc. http://maxima.sourceforge.net Visits:
338
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a priori the most widely
used software in companies in Switzerland for statistical analysis of data
because it has an impressive number of tests as well as many business packages.
Because of its price and its owner (IBM) can be regarded as the premium solution
of Statistics. www.ibm.com/software/fr/analytics/spss/ Visits:
482
R is a free powerful language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R
provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical
statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and
graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. One of R's strengths is the ease
with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including
mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. http://www.r-project.org Visits:
294
LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a powerful visual
tool (graphical programming language) developed by National Instruments to
control measures instrument or robots from a PC and used by a lot of companies
worldwide
(particularly
by engineers) . http://www.ni.com/labview/ Visits:
298
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