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.

Beamer

• 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 3.26.. January 4, 2013, 245 pp.

PSTricks

• 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

• Wolfram Virtual Conference 2013 (on April 16)
• Hands-on Start to Mathematica (4 min. Video)
• Mathematica notebooks:
  • Introduction | Graphing | Boolean Operations | Algebra and Calculus | Random Numbers | Lists I | Lists II | Higher-order Functions | Graphing II | Graphing III | Printing, Procedures, Recursion, Modules, and Replacement

• Examples:
  • Cannon Balls and Javelins | Babylonian Algorithm | Modeling the US Population as Logistic Growth | Wind Chill Factor

• Homework:
  • Homework 3 | Homework 2 | Homework 1

• Wolfram Demonstration Project (WDP) web site
• Some WDP examples:
  • Polynomial and Derivative | Lemniscate Linkage | Lemaire's Second Dissection of the Maltese Cross to a Square | Spherical Triangle Solutions | Antipodes | Build a Frustum
• A Mathematica textbook: Paul Wellin, Programming with Mathematica: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 4th ed., 2013. (Has not appeared yet; the current version is: Richard J. Gaylord, Samuel N. Kamin, Paul R. Wellin, An Introduction to Programming with Mathematica, Cambridge University Press, 3rd ed., 2005)

Maxima

• Introduction to Maxima (Mike and Tony)
• Maxima website

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 embedded in MediaWiki (quartic)| A GeoGebra applet embedded in MediaWiki II (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

Cinderella

• Introduction to Cinderella (Melinda and Michael)
• Cinderella website

Other Software

Stella

• Stella homepage
  • Predator-Prey Model
• List of system dynamics software
• Related textbooks:
  • Andrew Ford: Modeling the Environment, 2nd ed.
  • Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows: Limits to Growth, The 30-Year Update.

R

• The R-Project website
• Introductory Manual
• R Journal Volume 4/2, December 2012
• population.tab (data for graphics below) | R-script for graphics below

RPN Calculators

• Introduction to RPN Calculators (Bill and Jeremy)
• The Museum of HP Calculators

Other Resources

Information Retrieval

• Presentation (Dr. Louise Guthrie)

Setting up a webpage

• Ingredients:

1. Server space (at your school, or rent for about $20 per month)
2. An IP address such as 69.13.193.155 (comes with 1.)
3. A domain name such as www.utep.edu (comes with 1., or about $20 a year)
4. An FTP client such as WinSCP to transfer files
5. A Telnet/SSH client such as Tunnelier (Tunnelier also has an ftp client built in) or PuTTy
6. Now you can install software to put Mathematics on the web such as latex2html (old-fashioned) or MathJax. Examples: MathJax demos | a webpage made with latex2html.
7. Or use a pre-canned web authoring tool such as MediaWiki: \[\int_0^1 x^2\,dx.\] MediaWiki has numerous extensions for different file types such as images, GeoGebra files, videos, and can even integrate Matematica CDF files.
8. To write web pages from scratch you have to learn the basics of the HTML language, or use some authoring software such as Adobe Dreamweaver.

Linux

• Ubuntu Linux distribution
  • Homepage
  • Download page
  • Download instructions