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Mathematica World - May

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• Subject: Mathematica World - May
• From: smh at matilda.vut.edu.au (Stephen Hunt)
• Date: Fri, 20 May 94 1:58:44 EST

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Mathematica World - Helping You Describe Your World Mathematically

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Editor:  Stephen Hunt.  Executive Editors:  Brenda Hunt, Tim Adam.  Associate 
Editors: Paul Abbott, Desmond Fearnley-Sander, Richard Gaylord, Roland 
Jakschewitz, Robert Kragler, Kazume Nishidate, Terry Robb
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May.  Furniture Design - Roland Jakschewitz - Various pieces of furniture can be
specified by a furniture description language defined in Mathematica. The 
description language models a 'furniture-specialized 3D turtle'.  Other 
Notebooks - 4D Visualization, Live Evaluation, Planar Mechanisms, Transitional 
Maths Project, Ray Dream Designer, Mathematica University, Kreyszig Labs, OzMATH
Corner.  Tutorials - More Input and Output, Session Global Aspects, Action 
Preferences, Nested Brackets, Examples`StringPatterns`, 
NumericalMath`SplineFit`.  Packages - moebelsprech, Question, comppack.  News - 
Tip of the Month, Programming Competition, and solutions to news and mail group 
problems.

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.  her 
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.

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For further information contact the Dr Stephen M Hunt (Editor) at:

Email.  
mathematica at matilda.vut.edu.au, or smh at matilda.vdu.au

Postal Address.  
Mathematica World
Ormond College
University of Melbourne
Parkville  Vic  3052
Australia

Phone/Fax.
+613 349 2001
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