#Math

Yes. There really is a chat room where math is discussed #math on the Undernet

this is the formal stuffy "official" page about #math
Check out Uurrgghh's page for a little more cruelty.
   Maybe I'll call this more of a semi-official page. Although I had FatherPi's permission to put
    this together, there are many who hangout on the channel. I won't claim to represent all their
    views.

Other academic related channels can be found here

Pictures of #Math'ers

Pages by #math Regulars
Well I've already given Uurrgghh stepchild status
(Trust me. He's happy at that status because he can throw rocks from there)
If you speak Chinese you can tell me if Keichii's - (Sashimi) content is as great as his coding.
He even has a new one running on his own apache server. If you read only english, he does have info on Web Site design.

I'd like to see Hamlet's site if i could ever load it.

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THE CHANNEL click here <under construction> for help on joining the channel and why IRC is much better than many other ways to chat.
The Easiest Although IRC is better, you can use chatsystems to get to us in one click

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For More Options, I set up a listserve on Topica called undernet-math you can read it dirrectly on the web or register to reciev postings dirrect to your inbox.
The Most Active place to post and read posts is the newsgroup news:sci.math

About the Channel

It's kind of funny.....
Sitting on IRC you often get invites from channels like #coolplace asking you to please join now. #math simply exists. In many ways it is just a name and passionate math heads of many different shapes gravitate to this center. This web page will probably do little to gain traffic for the channel and the channel has little need for more traffic. Things ebb and flow. Sometimes it is quiet but enough connections are made between individuals. IRC is lost when the focus is just channels. There is no such thing as a cool channel. But that rare time you make a permanent connection it is worth the time of searching around. #math is a better than average place for connecting with souls who dig a little deeper into the nature of things.

<FatherPi> dosty....do you know we have not 1, but 2 PhD Math profs who are regs in here???
<FatherPi> and many, not all that regular though, who have Math bachelor or masters

    Rules.
        If you are bothering to read a channel's rules you are more than likely not someone who is going to break many of them. However, I am trying to write a few of my ideas about Advanced IRC Ettiquette. I am open to suggestions but also have many ideas so far. Advanced ettiquette is not just about being a user who just comes under the ban threshhold but a proactive citizen who makes IRC more valuable for others.
    Help.
(When AOL said the internet would help you with your homework, they forgot to mail us the check)
IRC channels are not official organizations with members who have all signed a statement of purpose to serve all that ask. An IRC channel is simply those who are attracted by the name of the channel and stick around because the enjoy some of the others that stay there to.   Still, some of us may help if it is encouraging your interest in math and not becoming a crutch. I am often happy to help until I get people assuming that is all I am there for and should answer questions quickly. I have been emailed what appeared to be one person's entire homework assignment. Most people here think of math as enjoyable so we often are more inclined to give you a helpful hint than the whole answer not because we don't want to but because we believe we are depriving you of a real pleasure.
    Some questions are interesting and some or tedious. Many of us won't do long division by hand but if you have a good brain teaser you'll find more than enough interest.
Summary: feel free to post your questions but don't heckle, beg or feel bad if nobody answers it.

Quotes:

<FatherPi> the only reason i don't ban him...is he might be old like me, and
<FatherPi> we need all the love we can get....hehe

Software
PC Users	Mac Users
Mupad has a freeware version that seems to only do some basic 3d modeling Wilhelm just told me that Dirive was free it looks to me that they are asking about $250 but I'll check again ....	I highly recomend The freeware program Mathpad

Maple and Mathmatica are the heavy hitters and available for many operating systems

Channel logs needed
If anyone has a particularly good conversation on the channel, log it. Maybe we can post a few logs as 'samples' for those passing through the web site.

Email me the URL of your webpage.

Email to the channel manager: Pimaster@pobox.com

Email regarding this page: Dostyvsky@cryogen.com

You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've ever went to one of those form-submit
web page 'chats' just to say "you losers don't even know what irc is, do you? Huh!?
DO YOU!?!" (more)

Boring useless stuff I felt would make this
complete
.....Maybe I'll look in to adding a java white board
....maybe I'll add a puzzle script to my IRC client

This page used to be hacked on a text editor far too late at night