Some links to the world outside

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ATTENTION!
An internet page is always under construction. So I regret to inform you that I can't guarantee you'll enjoy all links you can reach starting from this page. In the case you find a link as not working, I would be glad to get your email. Thank you very much!

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What exactly is Mathematics?

It is definitely impossible to answer a question like this on a web page. Nevertheless, there are some web pages trying to do so.
• How does Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat Last Theorem work? By Karl Rubin.
  
• What is Algebraic Geometry?
  
• The Number Theory Web.
  

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Pages which might be helpful for mathematicians

• The Mathematical Reviews
  
• The Zentralblatt Online

• The 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification directly on the AMS home page

• The Front end for the Mathematics ArXiv and its sub-archives for Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, K-theory and Algebraic Number Theory
  
• The Algebraic Number Theory Archives
  
• Daniel Grayson's K-Theory preprint archives
  
• Ulf Rehmann's Linear Algebraic Groups and Related Structures preprint server
  
• The Groups, Representations and Cohomology preprint archive
  
• FermiVista!: Recherche par mot-clef, a project for the search for preprints by keyword

• The Atlas of Finite Group Representations presented on the web pages of Queen Mary University London

• The home page of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
  
• The European Mathematical Society (EMS)
  
• The American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  
• The Société Mathématique de France (SMF)
  
• The web page of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV)

• The Information on the subject of Mathematics from the Conference of Mathematics Departments at the Universities in Germany.
  
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at St. Andrews and its Biographies Index
  
• The page of the Mathematics Genealogy Project located at North Dakota State University

• The TIMSS Study which showed the fact that Mathematics lessons at German schools are worse than in most developing countries.

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SGA in LaTeX

This is exactly what we were waiting for all the time. Bas Edixhoven's great SGA into LaTeX web project. Did you ever see SGA 1 in this beautiful form?
(This is "my personal" version, typeset in Garamond typefaces.)

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Mathematical journals

• Some mathematical journals, collected at Regensburg University
  
• The Journal fuer die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal)
  
• The Annals of Mathematics
  
• The Pacific Journal of Mathematics
  
• The Journal of the London Mathematical Society
  
• Springer Journals online with Communications in Mathematical Physics, Inventiones and Manuscripta Mathematica
  
• The journals of the American Mathematical Society with the Journal of Algebraic Geometry and the Journal of the American Mathematical Society
  
• The Elsevier journals, in particular the Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, the Journal of Algebra, the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Topology, and Topology and Its Applications
  
• The Communications in Algebra
  

• The JSTOR archive
  

• The Documenta Mathematica
  
• Geometry and Topology
  
• Homology, Homotopy and Applications
  
• Theory and Applications of Categories
  
• The New York Journal of Mathematics
  
• The Art and Mathematics Web
  

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The prices of mathematical journals

• A long article by Rob Kirby from 1997 about the prices of the mathematical journals and a long ranking containing more recent data

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Interesting home pages

• Dan Abramovich
• John Baez's Papers
• Laurent Berger
• Bernd Beyerstedt
• Thierry Bouche
• The Association Nicolas Bourbaki
• Richard Brent and his Factor Tables
• Daniel Bump and his work on Automorphic Forms and Representations
• K. Buzzard's minimalist home page
• Henri Cohen
• Antoine Chambert-Loir
• Henri Darmon's home page at McGill University
• Jean-Pierre Demailly
• Bas Edixhoven
• Theresia Eisenkölbl
• Noam D. Elkies
• Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans
• Paul Garrett's home page and his Vignettes on automorphic and modular forms, representations, L-functions, and number theory
• Horst S. Holdgrün
• Johan de Jong
• Kai Koehler
• János Kollár
• The work of Robert P. Langlands
• Manfred Lehn's page with his helpful text on "How can I give a good seminar talk?" (in German, only)
• Francois Loeser
• Curtis T McMullen
• J. S. Milne
• Frank Neumann
• Bjorn Poonen
• Lorenzo Ramero
• Holger Reich
• Miles Reid
• Kenneth A. Ribet
• Karl Rubin
• Katja Schladitz
• Karen E. Smith
• Ulrich Stuhler
• Haralambos (Harry) Tamvakis' home page
• Richard Taylor's home page
• Carsten Thiel's home page
• Yuri Tschinkel
• Adrian Vasiu
• Paul Vojta
• Charles Weibel and his book An introduction to algebraic K-theory
• My old friend Martin Welk
• Herbert Wilf
• Shou-wu Zhang
• Vincent Zoonekynd and his enormous work concerning LaTeX

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Some mathematical institutions

• The Institut fuer Mathematik of Humboldt University at Berlin
  
• The Mathematical Institute of Bonn University
  
• The Mathematical Institute at Cologne
  
• The Harvard University Department of Mathematics
  
• The Mathematical Institute at Jena
  
• The Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
  
• The UC Los Angeles Department of Mathematics
  
• The Institut fuer Mathematik of Mannheim University
  
• The Department of Mathematics of Muenster University
  
• The Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné in Nice
  
• The Department of Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame
  
• The Laboratoire de Mathématique de l'Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay
  
• The Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications (LAGA) of the Université de Paris Nord
  
• The Mathematical Institute of the University of the Land of Brandenburg at Potsdam
  
• The Princeton University Department of Mathematics
  
• The Mathematics Faculty of Regensburg University
  
• The Institut de Recherche Mathématique at Rennes
  
• The Mathematics Department at UC Santa Cruz
  
• The Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (IRMA) at Strasbourg
  
• The Mathematical Institute at Utrecht University
  
• The Department of Mathematics at Wuppertal University
  
• The Yale University Mathematics Department
  
• The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Berkeley
• The Weierstrass-Institut for Applied Analysis and Probability Theory Berlin
  
• The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bombay
  
• The Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik at Bonn
  
• The MIT home page
  
• The Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques at Bures-sur-Yvette
  
• The Institut fuer Experimentelle Mathematik at Essen
  
• The Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge
  
• The Institut Fourier at Grenoble
  
• The Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) at Kyoto
  
• The Steklov Mathematical Institute Moscow
  
• The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut at Oberwolfach
  
• The Institut Henri Poincare at Paris
  
• The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton
  
• The Emmy Noether Mathematical Institute (EMI) at Ramat Gan
  
• The Euler International Mathematical Institute at St. Petersburg
  
• The International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste
  

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Mathematical Problems and Fun

• Don Zagier's problems posed at St. Andrews in 1996
  
• The recent problems of the Goettinger Mathematischer Korrespondenzzirkel for school students and its archive of problems (in German only)
  
• The International Championship in Mathematical and Logical Games
  
• The International Mathematical Olympiad
  
• The newsgroup de.sci.mathematik
  

• Plouffe's constants
  
• Papers on Pi and other constants
  
• Animations of polyhedra generated using MetaPost by Denis Barbier at École polytechnique
  

• The Integrator provided by Wolfram Research
  
• A page on the status of the Fermat numbers
  

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Typography, style, TeX, and LaTeX

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
  
• The rules of the Typographie française
  
• Jacques André's typography lessons (mainly on French typography and in French, only)
  
• The (German) micro-typography rules by Marion Neubauer, part 1, part 2
  
• The official rules of the new German Orthography
  

• The (La)TeX navigator containing many examples of various fonts:
  
  • The list of Metafont fonts by Vincent Zoonekynd
    
  • The gallery of Metafont fonts by Marcus J. Ertl at Darmstadt
    
  • Examples of Bitstream fonts and standard industrial fonts by Thierry Bouche
    
• The CTAN-Web home page and the FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/TeX/CTAN/
  
• The font research page and the font link page by Luc Devroye. His list of free font archives is very helpful.
• The web page of the ttf2pt1 TrueType to Postscript converter written by Mark Heath, Andrew Weeks, Frank Siegert, Thomas Henlich, and Sergey Babkin.
  

• The TeX Users Group home page
  
• The TeX Frequently Asked Questions by the British TeX users group
  
• The FAQ LaTeX worked out by the Équipe Grappa in Lille
  
• The LaTeX bugs database at Mainz University
  

• The xy-pic home page
  
• The Xfig user manual
  

• A general information on Using LaTeX to Create PDF Documents by D. P. Story at the University of Akron
  
• Another introduction by Thierry Bouche at Grenoble
  
• PDFTeX support
  

• Some Class files for LaTeX2e, offered by the Société Mathématique de France
  
• Donald Knuth's home page
  
• Vincent Zoonekynd's LaTeX pages and his text on the usage of non-standard fonts. It is very informative but enormously long and in French, only.
• Damir Rakityansky's text on the usage of TrueType fonts under LaTeX and pdfLaTeX

• Some programs of my own. In particular for the LaTeX installation of a set of TrueType-Fonts including the generation of a mathematical style file.

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Dictionaries

• Leo's multilingual dictionary
  
• The home page of YourDictionary
  
• The ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
  
• The long list of online dictionaries at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in particular the Universal English Russian dictionary
  
• A list of French dictionaries
• The Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique du Quebec

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Publishing companies

• Princeton University Press
  
• Springer-Verlag
  
• Oxford University Press
  
• Cambridge University Press.
  
• Addison-Wesley
  
• World Scientific
  

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Search engines

• Hotbot
  
• Yahoo
  
• Apollo 7
• Google
  

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Some pages about Bridge

• The Bridge Club Kultcamp Rieneck and the German Bridge Camp on Rieneck castle
  
• The Goettingen Bridge Clubs

• The German Bridge Federation

• Rene Steiner's Bridge page

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Culture

• The programme of the theatres and cinemas at and near Goettingen
  
• The best cinema at Goettingen, the Lumiere

• The Louvre

• The Thebes Photographic Project

• The Work in Progress James Joyce Website
  
• A page on Franz Kafka
  
• The Comedian Harmonists

• The Aardman Collection and the home page of Wallace and Gromit
  

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Miscellanea

• The time table of the German Railway
  
• The menu of the Goettingen student restaurants
  
• Weather Underground's world wide whether forecast and another one by Yahoo
  
• The German Telephone Book , unfortunately the parallel offer of the Teleinfo-Verlag is no more available.
  

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And finally ...

• We just survived the so-called year 2000 bug. But quite soon the next problem is going to come, the year 5 billion bug.