CRN 24173: Technology Info
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LaTeX
- How to install LaTeX on Windows:
- Download and install MiKTeX.
- Make sure you have Adobe Reader installed.
- Download and install an editor, such as TeXMaker or TeXnicCenter. Configure the PDFLateX option.
- How to install LaTeX on Linux:
- Skip Step 1 above: LaTeX should already be installed.
- Make sure you have Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader) installed.
- There is a version of TeXMaker for Linux. Configure the PDFLateX option.
- How to install LaTeX on Macs:
- Follow the instructions at MacTeX.
- Some examples of LaTeX files:
- barebones.tex
- A multiple choice quiz
- LaTeX is part of MediaWiki and other software on the Internet\[\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}\]
- BA.tex | Boole.jpg | Huntington.jpg | Stone.jpg
- Resources:
- A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX
- A LaTeX Primer
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
- A LaTeX crash course
- The TeX Cookbook (List of symbols)
- The standard book reference is: Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 2nd Edition, 1994.
Beamer
- Jennifer's Presentation
- Latex source
- To compile the LaTeX file, you will also need to download the contents of the folder with the images used. (Put the files in a directory called "images".)
- A Beamer slide presentation: PDF file LaTeX file
- Andrew Mertz and William Slough. Beamer by Example. The PracTEX Journal 2005 No 04, 17 pp.
- Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, and Vedran Miletić. The Beamer class. User Guide for version 3.33.. December 25, 2013, 245 pp.
PSTricks
- Agamyrat's Presentation
- Using PSTricks with TeXMaker
- PSTricks on MACs:
On the Mac version - if this line is the first line of the a document using pstricks:
% !TEX TS-program = latex
the document can be typeset with Latex (the normal way it works in TexShop) instead of XeLaTex (the option we found in the Monday lab). [Thanks, Louise!]
Computer Algebra Systems
Mathematica
- Hands-on Start to Mathematica (4 min. Video)
- Mathematica notebooks:
- Homework
- Examples
- Mathematica textbooks (in increasing order of complexity):
- Roozbeh Hazrat, Mathematica: A Problem-Centered Approach, Springer Verlag, 2010.
- Stan Wagon, Mathematica in Action, Springer Verlag, 3rd ed., 2010.
- Paul Wellin, Programming with Mathematica: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 4th ed., 2013.
- Sal Mangano, Mathematica Cookbook, O'Reilly, 2010.
- Roman Maeder, Programming in Mathematica, Springer Verlag, 3rd ed., 1997.
Maple
A commercial competitor of Mathematica is Maple.
Maxima
- Maxima is a descendant of Macsyma, the legendary computer algebra system developed in the late 1960s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Click on the download tab on the left.)
- Documentation for Maxima can be found here.
Sage
Sage is another free computer algebra system, built on top of many existing open-source packages: $\LaTeX$, NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R etc. It can be used online or downloaded to run as a virtual machine.Geometry Software
GeoGebra
- GeoGebra website
- Download page. You need to have Java installed on your computer.
- Tutorial
- A GeoGebra applet as a web page
- A GeoGebra applet uploaded to GeoGebraTube (quartic)
- A GeoGebra applet embedded in MediaWiki (linkage)
- An example exporting GeoGebra graphics to LaTeX (LaTeX source file)
- Gaetano Di Caprio's applets
- Examples:
Geometer's Sketchpad
Cinderella
Cabri
Logo
"Logo is the name for a philosophy of education and a continually evolving family of programming languages that aid in its realization." (Harold Abelson)
- Monique's Presentation
- Logo Foundation
- UCB Logo. A basic implementation for Windows.
- MSW Logo. A more advanced version, also for Windows.
RPN Calculators
mydesktop.utep.edu
Mathematica (and other software) is available at mydesktop.utep.edu