Mathematica World - April
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- Subject: Mathematica World - April
- From: smh at matilda.vut.edu.au (Stephen Hunt)
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 1:30:04 EST
__________________________________________________________________ Mathematica World - Helping You Describe Your World Mathematically __________________________________________________________________ April Announcement __________________________________________________________________ April. Education Today Sample - Kit Dodson - Education Today is a special issue of Mathematica World presenting educational implementations of Mathematica from around the World. 20 authors illustrate how they are using Mathematica. This month's issue includes three sample Notebooks from contributors to the upcoming special issue. Other Notebooks - Articulated Figures at Play, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Kreysig Lab, MathLab, Medical Imaging with InterCall, OzMath Corner, Telling the Time. Tutorials - Managing Notebook Styles, Clipboard Conversion, Lazy Evaluation, Input and Output, NumericalMath`Microscope`, Statistics`DataManipulation`. Packages - XTFP0.3, XTFPSetUp, Faces, WireFrame, Streams. News - Tip of the Month, Programming Competition, and solutions to news and mail group problems. March. Object-Oriented Programming - Tim Adam - An introduction and guide to implementing object-oriented programming in Mathematica through Classes.m. Find out when, where, and how you might use this paradigm in your own work. Other Notebooks - XTFP Graphics Language Update and Parser, Function Optimization, Solar Eclipses 1994, OzMATH Corner. Tutorials - Formatting Textual Output, Searching within Notebooks, Lighting and Labelling Graphics3D, To Compile or Not to Compile?, Package Tutorials (DiscreteMath`ComputationalGeometry`, Graphics`ComplexMap`, ). Packages - Classes, Faces, WireFrame, XTFP0.2, XTFPSetUp. News - Tip of the Month, Programming Competition, Wolfram book announcement, and solutions to news and mail group problems. February. Mathematica's Programming Language - Roman Maeder - A discussion of the design decisions taken in implementing the Mathematica language, together with survey of current methods and recently added features. Other Notebooks - Spherical Harmonic Rotation, Fire!, Interlocking Pieces, Data Patterns, OzMATH Corner. Tutorials - Customizing Mathematica, Understanding Evaluation, Modules and Blocks, Inside Graphics and Sound, Graphics3D Packages, MathLink Fractals. Packages - Classes, Streams, UniformPolyhedra, XTFP Update, Arrow, WireFrame. es - Tip of the Month, Programming Competition, New Book by Roman Maeder, "The Mathematica Programmer" (Introduction, Sample Graphics), solutions to news and mail group problems, and InterCall Q&A. ____________________________________________________________________ For further information contact the Dr Stephen M Hunt (Editor) at: Email. mathematica at matilda.vut.edu.au o smh at matilda.vut.edu.au Postal Address. Mathematica World Ormond College University of Melbourne Parkville Vic 3052 Australia Phone/Fax. +613 349 2001 _____________________________________________________________________