Jason's Favorites

A few of my favorites. I’ll add to this list from time to time.

Ben Crowell was a driving force in helping me to get this site going. He’s an amazing guy, and he writes amazing books. His excellent Light and Matter series is in a friendly competition with Christoph Schiller’s Motion Mountain for best physics textbook. Ben and his wife have written several other books, too, and he maintains theassayer.org, a website to review e-books.

Jim Beecher’s website is beautifully laid out and a great place to go when you get that new digital camera for Christmas.

The Merlot is an amazing collection of all things educational, sadly not much updated anymore but still a great resource.

Mathworld and the companion Scienceworld websites are stunning resources. Everyone studying any science or math field should use these sites.

Rob Beezer’s A First Course in Linear Algebra is a great example of what all textbook websites should look like. I don’t list it here because I love linear algebra (I don’t), but because it offers the students so many choices for downloads and so much useful information in the form of changelogs, version logs, and so on. The big textbook companies should be following Rob’s lead.

I like Wheeless Handbook of Orthopaedics mostly for the picture of the skeleton.

New addition 27 Jan 06: Wireless Networking in the Developing World is a CC licensed work that will help relief workers get the internet to the places that need it most. This is hugely important.

New addition 11 Aug 06: Englishpage.com is hands-down the best ESL resource I’ve found.

New additions 08 Sept 06:
Digital History isn’t just one of the best books on my site, it’s one of the best books on its topic, period.

StudySpanish.com is the best place on the web to, well, study Spanish.

| posted Dec 30, 02:20 PM by Jason Turgeon

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