ma 375 a course in communicating mathematics with maple and latex given by paul eakin and carl...
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Ma 375A course in Communicating Mathematics with Maple and LaTeX
given by
Paul Eakin and Carl Eberhart
Department of Mathematics
University of Kentucky
Class 1 The Tools
Maple LaTeX Chisel CD
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.
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: “it’s a book”)
More on LaTeX You don’t 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.
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.
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.
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.
Next Time
We will go through this again in more detail