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Welcome to the Page of Pedro A. Marrone G.

Hello!, my name is Pedro A. Marrone G. Please receive the warmest welcome to my page. This page is dedicated to collect links that may be usuful to research mathematicians. But, you will also have access to several well known Search Engines, References and to News and Investment Services. The cool side of the page includes my favorite links, GMT( if you need exact time), things to read and of course comics. I hope you enjoy it, as much as I do building it.

Mathematics

This is the main section of the page. I f you want to gain access to the differerent sites please click here. A note about my research. I work for the Department of Mathematics of the University of Panama. My research interest at the moment lies on the History of Mathematics. I am interested in the development of the concept of Compactness and its relation to Normal Spaces. In particular I am working with the Uniform Convergence concept, I want to see if there is any relation between this concept and the development of Measure Theory toward the end of last century. If there is coincidence between your research and mine, or you have any question or suggestions related to it, please let me know by dropping me an e-mail.

Search Engines

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References

• Webster's Dictionary Search
• World Factbook 1995: A service of CIA!
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Roget's Thesaurus Search
• Internet Public Library Reference Shelf
• List of Usenet FAQs
• Creating Net Sites
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet

News

• CNN U.S. News: Up to the minute information from the Atlanta based CNN news chain.
• CNN World News: The very last information from around the world.
• The New York Times Front Page:
• The New York Times CyberTimes:
• USA Today Nationline:
• C|Net News
• ESPNET SportsZone: The latest in the Sport World.
• PC Week: The online version.

Financial Services

• NASDAQ
• Upside: Investing in Leading Technology Companies.
• Charles Schawb
• The Mutual Funds Index Page
• The Motley Fool Page
• Investor's Edge
• Fidelity Investments
• American Express Investment Page
• Standard & Poor's Equity Investor Services
• AAII: This site provides educational material to help investors become better managers of their money.
• Netstock Direct: Direct enrollment to stock programs.
• Merrill Lynch
• Conscious Investing Home Page
• CNN Financial News: If you invest, here you will find financial Information.
• USA Today Money
• American Stock Exchange Link Library

 Favorite Links

• Asterix Game Page: Mauricio Marrone's Web page.
• Cyber Education: A site promoting Education.
• Italy Online: A Web site to help Italians find their roots in the Motherland.
• Microsoft Home Page: Navegate to the Web World of the software giant.
• La página de la Escuela de Matemática: The page of the "School of Mathematics" of The University of Panama.
• MSNBC Weather Services: MSNBC worlwide weather services.
• CPI: The designers' page on the Web.
• Scientific American Web Site
• Netscape What's Cool
• Yahoo's Picks of the Week
• Point Communication's Best
• Deja News: Newsgroup Service
• Interesting Devices Connected to the Net
• Cool Site of the Day
• Project Cool Sighting

GMT

Want to know what time it is? Below you will find the current EST provided by the US Naval Observatory Master Clock time ... (Optimized for Netscape)

Do you want to synchronize your PC with one of those time servers? To download Windows software to synchronize your local clock to UTC(NIST)over the Internet click here. To download Windows software to synchronize your local clock using a direct dial-up connection to NIST click here.

Something to Read

In this section we will point out articles that are worth reading in our opinion. We will update this section at the most every other month. So, come and visit it frequently.

Life On Mars

• Science On-Line Life on Mars: Possible Relic Biogenic Activity in Martian Meteorite ALH84001.
• Life on Mars: Federation of American Scientist
• In Focus: Bugs in the data? The controversy over martian life is just beginning. Scientific American, October 1996.
• Global Climatic Change on Mars by Jeffrey S. Kargel and Robert G. Strom; Scientific American, November 1996.
• War of Worlds by Sharon Begley and Adam Rogers; Newsweek, February 10, 1997

Cancer Research and Genetic Developments

• What you need to know about Cancer. Scientific American(Special Issue), September 1996.
• Cell Suicide in Health and Disease by Richard C. Duke, David M. Ojcius and John Ding-E Young; Scientific American, December 1996.
• Discovering Genes for New Medicines by William A. Haseltine; Scientific American, March 1997.

General

• Our Infamous Alumnus- ContinuUMnews, Volume 5, No2, Fall 1996. A summary of the graduate years of Theodore Kaczynski (the "Unabomber") at The University of Michigan's Department of Mathematics.
• Mathematical Recreations-A guide to computer dating by Ian Stewart; Scientific American, November 1996. The following link is a complement to this reading: Calendar Conversions.
• The Microsoft Century by Steven Levy; Newsweek, December 2, 1996.
• What Goes Up Must Come Down by Allan Sloan; Newsweek, December 16, 1996.
• A Guide To Managing Your 401(k) by Ellyn E. Spragins; Newsweek, December 16, 1996.
• Why You Can't Relax About Retirement by Jane Bryant Quinn; Newsweek, December 16, 1996.
• The Einstein-Slizard Refrigerators by Gene Dannen; Scientific American, January 1997.
• Special Briefing- The 1996 Nobel Prizes for Science; Scientific American, January 1997. Click here to access the Nobel Prize Internet Archives.
• Catch a Comet by Its Tail - The Amateur Scientist by Shawn Carleson; Scientific American, January 1997. Read about comet Hale-Bopp, predicted to be the brighest comet of 1997. Click here to go to its Web Page.
• The following link: A guide to using internet for research serves to explain what Internet resources are useful to research and gives some pointers on how to find information relevant to your research project.
• I'am Sorry, Sir, But the 20th Century Just Disappeared - The Millennium Notebook; Newsweek, January 27, 1997.
• Beyond 2000 - America in the 21th Century; Newsweek, January 27, 1997.
• Can We Clone Humans by Sharon Begley; Newsweek, March 10, 1997.
  Of Related Interest:
• Transgenic: Livestock as Drug Factories by William H. Velander; Henryk Lubon and William N. Droham; Scientific American, January 1997.
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