Homepage of Peter Philip

Current Teaching:
Axiomatic Set Theory (at Moodle, page in German) (Summer 2024).
Analysis 2 for Statistics (page in German) (Summer 2024).
Seminar: Selected Topics from Analysis and Numerical Analysis (page in German) (Summer 2024).

Photo.

Curriculum Vitae:
Current Affiliation, Positions, Education, Publications, Presentations, Teaching.

Some Personal Information:
Mathematical Genealogy, Traveling Peter at Flickr.

Some Popular Links:
LMUcast, LRZ Sync+Share, Moodle, Uni2work, Zoom.

Contents / Quick Links: Tools, Science Links, Services, Recreation.

Some Useful Tools

Quick Links: Accounting, Archives, Encyclopedias, Finance, Language Tools, Maps, Search Engines, Weather.

Accounting Tools

• teltarif.de (German telephone rates database - in German).

Archives

• goodreads.com: Public Domain Books.
• Internet Archive (downloadable public domain material, including some classic movies).
• Project Gutenberg (downloadable e-books).
• publicdomainmovies.net.
• SnagFilms (watch (or share) full-length and short documentaries free - more than 1000 as of May, 2010, including really good stuff, including Ted Leonsis' Nanking and Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me to name just two).

Encyclopedias

• General
  • Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia of the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Movies and Television Series
• All Movie Guide
• Episode Lists:
  Criminal Minds, CSI: Vegas, Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii Five-0, Law & Order,
  Mission Impossible, NCIS, NCIS: Hawai'i, NCIS: Los Angeles,
  NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Sydney, NYPD Blue, Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
  Perry Mason, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Lower Decks,
  Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,
  Station 19, Stranger Things, Strike Back,
  The Crown, The Fall Guy, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,
  The Lost World, The Mandalorian, The Simpsons,
  The West Wing, Vikings: Valhalla, Wednesday, Young Sheldon.
• List of films in the public domain in the United States
• The Internet Movie Database
• Science
  • Eric Weissteins's Treasure Troves of Science: A collection of encyclopedias on the following topics:
    Astronomy, Chemistry, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Scientific Biography, Scientific Books.

Language Tools

• LEO (dictionary for English and German).
• Merriam-Webster OnLine (online dictionary and online thesaurus).
• Wordsmyth (the educational dictionary-thesaurus).

Finance

• Yahoo! Finance (stock quotes, market news, virtual portfolios, etc.).
  • portfolio tracker (needs sign-in).

Maps

• Google Maps ((almost) worldwide maps and directions).
• https://www.mapquest.com/ ((almost) worldwide maps and directions).
• German City Maps (in German only).

Search Engines

• General
  • Google.
  • Yahoo.

Weather

• National Hurricane Center.
• Yahoo! Weather.

Science Links

• General
  • arxiv.org (server for open-access e-prints in several fields, including Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics).
• Mathematics
  • AMS Open Math Notes
  • International Mathematical Union (IMU)
  • Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)
  • The Flyspeck Project (the purpose of the flyspeck project was to produce a formal proof of the Kepler Conjecture, the project was completed August 10, 2014).
    • The official report of the completed project.
  • The Mathematics Genealogy Project
    • See my mathematical genealogy.
• Mathematics/Physics Blogs
  • Backreaction by Sabine Hossenfelder
  • Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit

Full access by subscription only:

• MathSciNet (the American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews online)
  • Standard Query Form.

Online Services

• Finance
  • TARGOBANK (in German)
    • Sign-in portal.
• Music
  • kids-songs.tv - Songs for Children (movie clips playing songs for kids, most including lyrics)
• News
  • ARD teletext (German news source, in German only)
  • bbcnews.com (news and more)
  • CNN.com (news and more)
    US edition of CNN.com
    International edition of CNN.com
  • C-SPAN
    C-SPAN provides coverage of a variety of public affairs events. It is a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.
  • finanznachrichten.de (mostly in German: business news search engine, searchable by company, finds articles in both German and English)
  • Spiegel Online (German news source)
  • The Guardian (news and more)
  • The New York Times (news and more)
• Photos
  • Flickr (a photo sharing website).
    • Sign-in portal.
    • My Flickr Sites: Photos, Profile.
• Radio
  (stations with online radio streams)
  • NPR (National Public Radio, a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to several hundred public radio stations in the US).

Recreation

• Comics from gocomics
  • Calvin and Hobbes.
• National Football League
  • Scores, Standings.
• Webcams:
  • Times Square, New York City, USA:
    changing views,
    street-level view,
    changing aerial views.

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Last update: Apr 19, 2024 Peter Philip.