Mathematical Communication and Technology (Math 689-604)

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Preface

This course discusses the communication of mathematics, with emphasis on computer techniques. The course is intended primarily for entering graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M University.

To get started, you need to know how to use a World-Wide Web browser. If you need instructions, click the left mouse button on this sentence.

Here is some very basic information for new users of the computers in the Department of Mathematics:

• How to get a computer account
• Computing policies and etiquette
• How to log off from an x-terminal

Introduction

To communicate, you have to learn the language, acquire information, and transmit information. These are not independent activities, and accordingly this course has a nonlinear structure. Many of the course materials will be on-line in a hypertext interlinked format.

Some of the skills you will develop in this course are the following:

• General computer literacy in the UNIX environment (managing files, using electronic mail, reading news, using application programs).
• How to typeset beautiful mathematics with LaTeX. You can look at an example.
• How to use the computer mathematics program Maple. You can look at an example.
• How to find information on the Internet, and how to make your own information available there. For example, you can look at your instructor's home page.
• How to present mathematics orally and visually so that your audience will understand it. (Sorry, no on-line example until we get video capability!)

Now you may read the opening day handout, view list of course projects, or jump to the first class. You may also view the table of contents or the list of resource materials.

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