Useful and interesting links
Fraktur typeface
An eternal struggle for anyone who works in Lie theory is the following question: how does one write fraktur typeface without access to a computer. A few letters are passed around, but I've never seen a systematic presentation of handwritten versions of the letters in fraktur – until now. The Jewish records indexing of Poland webpage contains a guide to printed and handwritten forms of various typefaces used in the Jewish records of Poland, and if you scroll down to the German section you can find a guide to handwritten fraktur. Also of use is the Wikipedia article on Sütterlin script. Now we'll just see if anybody recognises the handwritten ‘s’.
BBC Radio – Indian mathematics
A BBC Radio podcast on the development of mathematics in India and its influence on modern mathematics. Approximately 45 minutes.
The hardest logic puzzle ever
Maybe not the hardest ever, but amusing nonetheless. Try to identify the three gods True, False and Random with three yes-or-no questions, while sorting out their language.
AMS LaTeX documentation
A handful of helpful documents for typesetting mathematical documents using LaTeX.
- A short primer on the amsmath package for LaTeX
- A longer guide for the amsmath package
- A guide to the amsthm package, which provides handy environments for typesetting theorems and proofs