Greetings! Welcome to my World-Wide Web site. I'm Michael Hamm.

This is the homepage of my site; all areas are linked to from here. Please feel free to browse this site at will, using the table of contents below for easy reference.

This paragraph is inserted in commemoration of the recent and continuing violence and deaths in Israel. We pray that they cease. You can see today's news from Israel.

Here's what this site looks like:

• Orthodox Judaism (These pages, by their nature, will be mostly incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with orthodox Judaism.)
  • Divrei Torah I made up or heard
    • D'var Torah: Parashas Vayera
    • D'var Torah: Parashas B'shalach
  • Halacha and minhag
    • Davar Shetibulo B'mashke
    • Shabas Shira
  • Timeline as an aid to learning M'gila 17a, the end of Perek M'gila Nikres
  • A speech I gave at a סעודת הודאה
• The First Crusade and the Jews of Western Europe
• Mathematics
  • "A Hierarchy of Theories of Arithmetic" -- a term paper I wrote
  • Möbius armbands
  • Calculus III (Math 233), Summer 2007
• Web authoring
  • HTML tutorial
  • Drop-down links
  • Default styles for HTML elements
• Uniform Commercial Code
• A recording of my speech
• ASCII artwork
  • "On ASCII Art" -- an essay I wrote
    • a note on the text
    • the essay itself
  • Color ASCII Manhattan Subway Map
  • mshebrew210.flf -- a FIGlet font file
• American Sign Language as a Foreign Language
  • Proposal
• Appendices
  • Transliteration scheme (Hebrew to English)
  • Abbreviations used in citations on halacha and minhag pages
• Administrativia and the like
  • About me on the Internet and elsewhere
  • My fine print