Ma 375

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Ma 375

• A course in Communicating Mathematics with Maple
  and LaTeX
• given by
• Paul Eakin and Carl Eberhart
• Department of Mathematics
• University of Kentucky

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Class 1 The Tools

• Maple
• LaTeX
• Chisel CD

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What are Maple and LaTeX?

• Maple is a language for posing, investigating,
  and solving mathematical problems.
• LaTeX is a language for preparing Mathematical
  documents for publication.
• A knowledge of these languages equips you to
  communicate mathematics both with yourself and
  with the outside world.

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More on Maple

• Worksheet Environment -- like a sheet of paper
• Use it like a graphing calculator
• Use it to make 3d movies
• You can do algebra in a Maple worksheet
• Maple has a large mathematical vocabulary
• You can extend the vocabulary
• You have to buy it (think its a book)

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More on LaTeX

• You dont have to buy it
• Based on TeX, a mathematical typesetting
  language invented by Donald Knuth
• LaTeX is used extensively by the scientific
  community at the university level.
• Use it to write math texts.
• Maple worksheets can be exported to LaTeX.

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The Chisel CD

• Has a complete LaTeX system on it called MiKTeX.
  This can be run right off the CD.
• Contains a large database of existing LaTeX
  source documents, from quizzes to books.
• Has a MapleV4 demo worksheet reader with
  subsistence computational ability
• Contains a large database of Maple worksheets,
  arranged into books.

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Installing Chisel

• Get the CD from http//www.ms.uky.edu/chisel
• Stick it in your Cdrom drive
• Initially you may want to choose a minimal
  installation.
• After installation, you have a Chisel icon on
  your desktop. Click It.

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Searching the Chisel

• Pick a word, like function, and see where it
  occurs on the Chisel disk
• The disk contains mws , tex, dvi, and ps files..
  These are read by MapleV4, Wordpad, yap, and
  gsview32 respectively.

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Next Time

• We will go through this again in more detail