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
__________________________________________________________________ Mathematica World - Helping You Describe Your World Mathematically __________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________________