Technology Info

Geogebra

• GeoGebra website
  • Download page
  • Tutorial
• A GeoGebra applet embedded in MediaWiki

RPN Calculators

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

Mathematica

• 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)

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!]