Welcome to the home page of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. This site is rather new. Expect it to grow slowly with time. Suggestions for items to be included here would be appreciated. Send comments to David Eck (eck@hws.edu).

NEWS!

• 23 Sept 95: Letter from Atilla Kiraly, who is spending a term abroad in Budapest, Hungary.
• June 95:Student Prizes and Awards.

Local Information

• List of faculty, with phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
• Personal home pages:
  • Professor David Eck
  • Professor Kevin Mitchell
  • Professor John Vaughn
• Information from the 1995-96 catalog about majoring in Mathematics or Computer Science.
• Information about Kevin Mitchell's Term Abroad in Australia program
• Notes for a talk by Kevin Mitchell on hyperbolic tilings.
• Information about The Most Complex Machine, David Eck's introductory computer science textbook.

Math and Computer Science on the Web

Starting Points for Exploration:

• The Association for Computing Machinery's server, including
  • Crossroads, an on-line journal by and for students
  • Graduate Assistantship Directory
• The American Mathematical Society's server, including:
  • On-line versions of AMS publications, such as Bulletin of the AMS and Notices of the AMS.
  • A searchable membership list
• World Wide Web Virtual Library pages for:
  • Mathematics
  • Computing
• The Mathematical Association of America
• List of Mathematics Information Servers (from the Penn State).

Some Interesting Pages:

• The Geometry Center
• The Jargon File (aka The Hacker's Deictionary)
• Electronic Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics

This site is located on a Macintosh IIci running Chuck Shotton's HTTP server for Macintosh, MacHTTP. If you are interested in learning more about MacHTTP, here is the MacHTTP documentation that came with the server.

The same Mac is also running Peter Lewis' FPTd server, which is visible on the Internet as a Gopher server as well as an anonymous FTP server at math.hws.edu. (Some WWW browsers seem to have trouble reading from the FTP server, so use the Gopher for direct access from your WWW browser. It's faster anyway.) For the time being, the only thing on this server is some free math-related Macintosh software.