Re: Mathematica 8 & reports / books
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- Subject: [mg114981] Re: Mathematica 8 & reports / books
- From: per at RQNNE.invalid (Per Rønne)
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 04:01:27 -0500 (EST)
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AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <if1o2q$p54$1 at smc.vnet.net>, per at RQNNE.invalid (Per Rønne) > wrote: > > > I plan to purchase Mathematica 8 Student's Edition when I begin at study > > of astronomy and physics at The University of Copenhagen September 2011. > > At present I own Mathematica 5.1 Teacher's Edition [I'm a Sixth Form > > College teacher with a master degree in computer science and English]. > > For a Scandinavian view on this query, buy Heikki Ruskeepaa's > "Mathematica Navigator" (a good purchase in any case), and read the > section in the Preface where he describes how he produced this book > directly from Mathematica (sort of . . . ) There seem to be two of them, the dearest Edition Three from March 2010 the cheapest Edition ? from December 2010. But is the latter also Edition Three ? - something that should mean it doesn't cover Mathematica 8. And the book is only paper-based ;-(. At present, I have Stephen Wolfram's "The Mathematica Book 5th Edition" on my shelves. And a short introduction book. > > Has Mathematica been improved when it come to produce reports and books, > > or is it still necessary to convert the Mathematica notebooks for use in > > LaTEX? > > Some of us still regard Wolfram's focus on trying to produce documents > of any and all kinds directly from within Mathematica notebooks -- > especially documents that are genuinely "typeset," like books -- as a > fundamentally misbegotten effort, in which case the term "improved" is > not really relevant to the effort. Still, LateX will be necessary ... -- Per Erik Rønne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe