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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:32:23PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:
> ** Starting Oct 28, FRIAM is moving to > ** Mission Cafe (previously Jane's) > ** See friam.org for map > ====================================== > > Thanks, this is great stuff. > > If LaTeX is near critical mass, possibly there are browser plugins > for it? There was a dvi viewer once (DVI is the output of LaTeX), but basically postscript, and then PDF seem to have displaced it. > > I always thought of LaTeX the same way I look at emacs .. just a > little bit over the top and a bit of a steep learning curve! I'll > check it out tho. > It is immensely powerful, but I'd disagree about the steep learning curve. Back in 1989, when I switched to LaTeX, I took a LaTeX manual home on Friday night, and by the following Tuesday I'd submitted my first LaTeX-written paper to a journal. At the same time, for historical reasons, I prepared another paper using Microsft Word (Word 4 for Mac, IIRC). That paper took nearly a month to get together, and looked like crap compared with LaTeX's output. Needless to say, I haven't looked back since. Word might have improved, but not that much. BTW - emacs now has a GUI interface that gets you started doing things any other editor can do before you learn the more advanced stuff. Your comments are more applicable to emacs of 10 years ago. This email is written in emacs :) Also BTW, there is a GUI LaTeX authoring tool called TeXMacs (I think), and a commercial one called Scientific Workplace. Some people I know swear by these packages - they fall into the category of training wheels for me though. Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 R.Standish at unsw.edu.au Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Holy cow! Thinking about symbolics and such, I just remembered that
the new Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) included a nifty Grapher application: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Grapher001.75.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 39798 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20051025/9fa2f995/Grapher001.75-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- (pardon the .75 reduction but 100% was a bit too large for the list msg max.) Full size lossless image: http://backspaces.net/files/Grapher001.png I was looking at the difference between point-wise and uniform convergence of sequences of functions and an example was x^n. So I wondered just how "square" x^100 would be, for example. Grapher did a great job right away, zero learning curve. Looks like Grapher does a pretty good job with a wide variety of symbolic math too. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org |
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For those transitioning to latex but feel lost without MS Word's equation
editor, I found lyx http://www.lyx.org/ to be a good start. You can build a document is an almost WYSIWYG like environment and later translate to pure Latex. If features a very powerful equation editor that is almost as good as -if not better than- Mathtype. If you are making the transition to Latex, this book is an excellent starter http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf |
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Steve,
Still trying to sort out my schedule for coming to Santa Fe. Can't wait to meet you and your colleagues face to face. I really enjoy reading your stuff. I'll drop you a note as soon as Dr. Exelby and I can coordinate our schedules to come and join you all at Mission Cafe for good conversation. My business got its first round of funding. Woo hoo!! Check out plan here: http://www.eagleriverassociates.com/jl_sim.pdf Christina, a colleague, put together a cool flash piece on how the technologies will impact business strategy. It's only 14 minutes long...check it out if you get a chance. Let me know what you think. More info here: http://www.strategydynamics.com/jl/ Best, Justin --- Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> wrote: > ** Starting Oct 28, FRIAM is moving to > ** Mission Cafe (previously Jane's) > ** See friam.org for map > ====================================== > > > > Any other pointers to open/free or modestly priced > (<$500 I'd say) > > math software would be welcome. > > http://www.scipy.org/About/ > "SciPy is a collection of mathematical algorithms > and convenience functions > built on the Numeric extension for Python. It adds > significant power to the > interactive Python session by exposing the user to > high-level commands and > classes for the manipulation and visualization of > data. With SciPy, an > interactive Python session becomes a data-processing > and system-prototyping > environment rivaling sytems such as Matlab, IDL, > Octave, R-Lab, and SciLab. > > The additional power of using SciPy within Python, > however, is that a powerful > programming language is also available for use in > developing sophisticated > programs and specialized applications. Scientific > applications written in SciPy > benefit from the development of additional modules > in numerous niches of the > software landscape by developers across the world. > Everything from parallel > programming to web and database subroutines and > classes have been made available > to the Python programmer. All of this power is > available in addition to the > mathematical libraries in SciPy." > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, > etc. at http://www.friam.org > |
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Sorry for my post to the whole list. Meant this to
just go to Steve. My mistake. --- Justin Lyon <justin1028 at yahoo.com> wrote: > ** Starting Oct 28, FRIAM is moving to > ** Mission Cafe (previously Jane's) > ** See friam.org for map > ====================================== > > Steve, > > Still trying to sort out my schedule for coming to > Santa Fe. Can't wait to meet you and your colleagues > face to face. I really enjoy reading your stuff. > > I'll drop you a note as soon as Dr. Exelby and I can > coordinate our schedules to come and join you all at > Mission Cafe for good conversation. > > My business got its first round of funding. Woo > hoo!! > > Check out plan here: > http://www.eagleriverassociates.com/jl_sim.pdf > > Christina, a colleague, put together a cool flash > piece on how the technologies will impact business > strategy. It's only 14 minutes long...check it out > if > you get a chance. Let me know what you think. > > More info here: http://www.strategydynamics.com/jl/ > > Best, > Justin > > --- Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> > wrote: > > > ** Starting Oct 28, FRIAM is moving to > > ** Mission Cafe (previously Jane's) > > ** See friam.org for map > > ====================================== > > > > > > > Any other pointers to open/free or modestly > priced > > (<$500 I'd say) > > > math software would be welcome. > > > > http://www.scipy.org/About/ > > "SciPy is a collection of mathematical algorithms > > and convenience functions > > built on the Numeric extension for Python. It adds > > significant power to the > > interactive Python session by exposing the user to > > high-level commands and > > classes for the manipulation and visualization of > > data. With SciPy, an > > interactive Python session becomes a > data-processing > > and system-prototyping > > environment rivaling sytems such as Matlab, IDL, > > Octave, R-Lab, and SciLab. > > > > The additional power of using SciPy within Python, > > however, is that a powerful > > programming language is also available for use in > > developing sophisticated > > programs and specialized applications. Scientific > > applications written in SciPy > > benefit from the development of additional modules > > in numerous niches of the > > software landscape by developers across the world. > > Everything from parallel > > programming to web and database subroutines and > > classes have been made available > > to the Python programmer. All of this power is > > available in addition to the > > mathematical libraries in SciPy." > > > > > > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > > Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, > > etc. at http://www.friam.org > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > Wed Lecture schedule, archives, unsubscribe, maps, > etc. at http://www.friam.org > Best, Justin Lyon Justin's profile . . . https://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/2815771/ Justin's business blog . . . http://justinlyonandsimulation.blogspot.com Justin's personal blog . . . http://blog.360.yahoo.com/justin1028 I'm from Texas. What country are you from? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/663131/posts |
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