MATH 2,000!

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This tutorial was designed to be experienced on a PC in a ItaP PC lab like LAEB B-286 or on a math dept SUN in one of the math dept computer labs. If you plan to use a ItaP PC, here are some preliminary things to read before you go to a ItaP PC lab.

• logging onto a ItaP PC
• starting Netscape on a ItaP PC

After you've had a look at the above two pages, you are ready to begin. Go to a ItaP PC, open Netscape and point it to this page. Click on the first link below and you are off.

Course materials

Special topics for ItaP PC's.

• telnetting to math from a ItaP PC
• getting math X-windows on a ItaP PC
• how to keep grades using Excel on a ItaP PC
• how to transfer files between math and a ItaP PC

Topics for math SUN's or ItaP PC's.

• e-mail using pine
• the pico editor
• maple and xmaple
• matlab
• amstex
• latex
• MikTeX on a ItaP PC
• xdvi
• how to make your own Home Page on the Web

More about the course...

Topics

• A quick introduction to Netscape and the WORLD WIDE WEB.
• A quick introduction to UNIX and e-mail using pine in an X-window environment.
• How to edit a file using pico
• MAPLE, from symbolic manipulation to animated 3d-graphics.
• MATLAB and a new outlook on linear algebra.
• Mathematics into type: AmSTeX and LaTeX.
• Excel for keeping grade records
• How to install your very own home page

Reference material

Harold Boas at Texas A & M has created a thorough and well crafted online tutorial for most of the topics mentioned above. See

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~harold.boas/courses/math696/index.html

Another handy URL is the Math Dept Network News at

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell/nn/news.html

Some good books:

1. MAPLE V Flight Manual, Ellis, Johnson, Lodi, Schwalbe, Brooks/Cole, 1992 (This book comes with the student version of MAPLE).
2. Introduction to Maple, Andre Heck, Springer-Verlag, 1993.
3. The student edition of MATLAB, Version 4 User's Guide, the Math Works, Inc., D. Hanselman, B. Littlefield, 1995.
4. The Joy of TeX, 2nd Edition, M. Spivak, Amer. Math. Soc., 1990.
5. LaTeX for everyone, Jane Hahn, Prentice Hall, 1993.
6. A guide to LaTeX 2e Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
7. Learning the UNIX operating system, 3rd Edition, G. Todino, J. Strang, J. Peek, O'Reilly and Associates, 1993.
8. UNIX in a Nutshell, D. Gilly, O'Reilly and Associates, 1986.