When I studied math there wasn't much about it on the internet. You had to go to a college for classes and to the library to read textbooks and papers. Now there are all kinds of math resources online. I think this lessens the need for universities and academic journals. When people can share and solve problems online, publish papers on their blog or arXiv and even put textbooks online then knowledge is liberated!

Here are some math resources that I have found useful and interesting:

• Math articles and ebooks
  • wikipedia math portal and categories
  • wikiversity math portal
  • Free e-textbooks (search for math in the long list of subjects)
  • 79 online math textbooks
• Shared problem solving and archive of solved problems
  • Math Overflow (for serious students and researchers) 
  • math.stackexchange.com (for everyone).
  • there are other stack exchanges for statistics, physics, Spanish and 80 more areas
• Math papers
  • arXiv
• Math blogs and personal websites
  • Tim Gowers  -
  • Terence Tao - great discussion of topics, open problems and career advice
  • Tom Körner - learning guides, lecture notes and more
  • Vicky Neale - who blogged for everyone of her lectures with background notes and problems
  • Vi Hart - super fun math videos and math music
• Course materials
  • Cambridge - Pure math example sheets, lecture notes
    • (drill down into the staff person pages to see posted lecture notes)
  • MIT - math lecture notes and example sheets. Some are full OCW Scholar courses that are designed for independent learners who have few additional resources available to them. These courses include exam solution notes, online study groups, video and simulations.
  • Open University - OpenLearn free course materials on pure, applied and statistics
  • Udacity - free video lectures, online tests and learning community mainly related to applied, applicable and computer science topics.
  • Free math video and audio courses
  • Indian professors' free video lectures along with Lecture Notes and references  (Select "Mathematics" from the list of courses available).
  • Kahn Academy - online courses, videos and interactive problems/tests
• Books
  • Princeton Companion to Mathematics - an encyclopedic overview of pure math and some theorical physics with chapters on proof, many areas of math and biographies of famous mathematicians.

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This article is by a girl who has traveled and worked her way around the world straight out of college. If she could do it with no experience perhaps you could too.

Next week marks the two-year anniversary of the day I graduated from college.

Holy cow, does time fly.

In that time, I’ve lived in two countries, traveled across three continents, and had too many adventures to count — and (except for one six-week period) I did it all while holding a job abroad, or with another one lined up.

Not only does she tell her story of how she did it, she also gives some tips on how to do it. Including:

• Scout out places where cost of living is low.
• Research visas and working holiday passes.
• Take a TEFL course online while you have free time.
• Buy a one-way ticket.
• Set up online billing and payment
• Don’t be afraid to look in unconventional places for jobs.
• Give yourself a deadline and a back-up plan.
• Make yourself useful/Volunteer.
• Step out of your comfort zone.
• Don’t be afraid to say yes to a job or opportunity.
• Be passionate.
• Network, network, network. Even if you were shy before.
• Be patient and flexible.
• Take risks.

I would add that if college doesn't inspire you then it would be possible to do this straight out of school too and people have done exactly that.

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