CRN 24173: Technology Info

LaTeX

• How to install LaTeX on Windows:

1. Download and install MiKTeX.
2. Make sure you have Adobe Reader installed.
3. Download and install an editor, such as TeXMaker or TeXnicCenter. Configure the PDFLateX option.

• How to install LaTeX on Linux:

1. Skip Step 1 above: LaTeX should already be installed.
2. Make sure you have Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader) installed.
3. There is a version of TeXMaker for Linux. Configure the PDFLateX option.

• How to install LaTeX on Macs:

1. Follow the instructions at MacTeX.

• Some examples of LaTeX files:

1. barebones.tex
2. A multiple choice quiz
3. LaTeX is part of MediaWiki and other software on the Internet\[\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^2}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}\]
4. BA.tex | Boole.jpg | Huntington.jpg | Stone.jpg

• Resources:

1. A Simplified Introduction to LaTeX
2. A LaTeX Primer
3. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
4. A LaTeX crash course
5. The TeX Cookbook (List of symbols)
6. The standard book reference is: Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 2nd Edition, 1994.

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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
  • Latex source.
• 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:
  • Introduction | Graphing | Solving Equations | Boolean Operations | Algebra and Calculus | Random Numbers | Lists I | Lists II | Higher-order Functions | Graphing II | Graphing III | Printing, Procedures, Recursion, Modules, and Replacement
• Homework
  • Homework 2 | Homework 3 | Homework 4
• Examples
  • Newton's Algorithm | Prime Factorization
• 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.

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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:
  • The Theorem of Thales | A triangle | An ellipse | The cycloid (web page) | A parabola

Geometer's Sketchpad

• Geometer's Sketchpad resource page

Cinderella

• Cinderella WiKi page

Cabri

• 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

• Online version of HP-15C
• Sample test from the UIL Texas
• The Museum of HP Calculators

Excel

• Presentation

mydesktop.utep.edu

Mathematica (and other software) is available at mydesktop.utep.edu

Accessing files on mydesktop.utep.edu