Resources for students in the Wellesley Department of Mathematics

|| Math Help Room|| Math Review Sessions || Resources in the Department || Online Resources ||

Math Help Room:
Every Sunday through Thursday from 7 to 9 pm, student tutors (who have already taken Math 205 or more) are on hand in the Department Common Room, SCI 362, to answer questions and help students with homework problems in calculus and some other courses. The Help Room sessions begin the second week of each semester: for Fall 2007 that is Sunday, September 9.

Click here to see a Help Room schedule.

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Math Review Sessions:
At the beginning of each fall semester, the Math Department offers free, informal "minicourses" designed to cover basic mathematics for use in calculus and other quantitative courses. Everyone is welcome to come to any or all of the sessions.  One of the sessions, designed for students in Calculus II, will review material from Calculus I. The instructors for Fall 2007 are Profs. Horton, Shultz, and Trenk.

In Fall 2007, these minicourses will meet 12:30 - 1:20 in SCI 364.

Handouts are available at the class sessions or from the Math Department Office in SCI 361 or in the Mathematics conference on FirstClass. Copies of the handouts may also be available on reserve in the Science Library.

Students who need more help with basic math should also contact Corri Taylor or Jessica Polito in the Quantitative Reasoning Department.

Click here to see a Math Review schedule.



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Resources in the Department

Department Office: The Math Department Office, wonderfully staffed by Ms. Melanie Chamberlin, is located in SCI 361. This is one place to look for information about summer work and research opportunities, actuarial opportunities, and graduate school information.

Common room  (SCI 362): SCI 362 is the Department Common Room. Whenever it's not being used for a Department event, the Common Room is available to students for study or discussion. If you're looking for someone to talk mathematics with, the Common Room is one place to try. This room is also used in the evenings as the Math Help Room.

Lending Library: If you're looking for some additional practice problems or another perspective on a concept you're having trouble with, try browsing this informal lending library. In the hall outside the Common Room you'll find several bookcases of mathematics textbooks. These books are available for student use. Just sign a book out on the list posted at the end of the bookcase to borrow it, and then cross off your name when you return the book. Many of the books are calculus texts, but there are also books on linear algebra, differential equations, and more.

The Mathematics Computer Laboratory (SCI 257): Outfitted with Macintosh computers, the computer lab is open all day and evening most days, and the computers are available for students to use whenever the lab is not being used for a class. Each of the computers is equipped with Mathematica and Joy of Mathematica, as well as a variety of other software.

Science Library: The Science Library is a wonderful resource.   Explore it for suggested alternative texts, for popular mathematics books, or biographies of famous mathematicians.  Don't miss out on their webpage of interesting mathematics sources.

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Additional Online Resources

Here are some sites on the World-Wide Web that you might enjoying exploring. All have some connection to mathematics, and some are specifically designed for undergraduates. (These links will open in new pages.)

Mathematics student pages at other colleges and universities

Harvard College Math Review: Expository articles by undergraduates.
Swarthmore College: Links to pages on student research, mathematics software, math resources on the Internet.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville: Links to pages on careers, student research, summer programs, competitions, undergraduate publications.

Mathematics Societies: Pages for undergraduates

Mathematical Association of America (MAA): Links to information about careers, student research, mathematics competitions.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): Summer programs, student research, and careers, with an emphasis on applied math.
American Mathematical Society (AMS). Links to a great variety of information of interest to undergraduates.

Other informational links

Budapest Seminars in Mathematics: An excellent program for mathematics study (in English) abroad. Several Wellesley students have studied under this program.
Math in Moscow: A semester-long program for mathematics study (in English).

Topics in mathematics

Math Virtual Library (from Florida State University): Links to websites for specific topics in mathematics, as well as software, newsgroups, math departments, etc.
University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Web page devoted to the history of mathematics.

Mathematics software

Mathematics Archives: Download shareware, demos of commercial software, and reviews. For Macintosh, DOS, Windows. Links to other software archives and databases.

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