Math 389 Winter 2013

Resources

LaTeX

Most mathematics nowadays is written using LaTeX.

An excellent introduction to LaTeX is The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. (This guide is also available in other languages). A much longer teatise is here. Leslie Lamport's book on LaTex is still a very good reference, though it doesn't include packages written recently.

This Short Math Guide for LaTeX summarizes the math commands in LaTeX (including the packages amsmath and amssymb).

Here are the topics for the LaTeX quiz (which will be administered for the first time on 2/9/11), together with last year's quiz.

LaTeX	Postscript	PDF
quiztopics.tex	quiztopics.ps	quiztopics.pdf
quiz2010.tex	quiz2010.ps	quiz2010.pdf

Here are some LaTeX examples. The first is the file that we created together in class on January 26th.

LaTeX	Postscript	PDF
hello.tex	hello.ps	hello.pdf
example0.tex	example0.ps	example0.pdf
example1.tex	example1.ps	example1.pdf
example2.tex	example2.ps	example2.pdf
mathsamples.tex	mathsamples.ps	mathsamples.pdf
pstdemo.tex	pstdemo.ps	pstdemo.pdf

A guide for finding commands for LaTeX symbols is available here.

A LaTeX template for your writing projects is available here.

Mathematica, Maple and MatLab files

Here are the files from the class on computer assisted mathematics: Maple, Mathematica, MatLab 1 and MatLab 2

References and links to tutorials for Mathematica, Maple and Matlab can be found on the Tutorial Web Page

Some advice on writing a mathematical paper

How to Write a Math Paper (Rough Draft) (The LaTeX source file is available here.)

Notes from lecture on writing, 2/3/2010.