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Extractions: A listing about 40 excellent recreational math programs for Macintosh that do: polyhedra and Rubic cubes, curves and surfaces, fractals and L-systems, tilings and symmetry, game of hex and game of life, chess and five-in-a-row, peg solitare and polyominos, ... etc. Descriptions of programs with links to where you can get them (or demos) in the following categories: Computer Algebra System/General (3D Graphics Viewers for Mathematica, other popular packages such as Maple, Derive, MacSyma, Reduce, MuPad, and Axiom), Numerical Packages/General, 3D Visualization/Geometry, 2D Visualization/Geometry, Fractals, Artificial Intelligence/Artificial Life/Cellular Automata, Board Games, and Puzzles. Also related Web sites. Hosted by the Math Forum. more>> Mathematics Archives - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
Who Is Who? top He was born 1643 in England. As a physicist, mathematician and philosopher he worked about mechanics, astronomy, gravitation and calculus. http://www.jgiesen.de/WerIstEs/WhoIsIt.html
Extractions: He was born in 1564. As a physicist, mathematician and philosopher he worked about mechanics (free fall), optics (telescope) and astronomy. His work "Dialogo intorno ai due massimi sistemi del mondo" was published in 1632. For defending the new astronomical world system he was accused by the Roman Inquisition. He died in 1642.
