Re: Thesis
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- Subject: [mg27647] Re: [mg27640] Thesis
- From: "Matthew D. Langston" <langston at SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:49:37 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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Hi Jonghee, I don't know if it was the best way or not, but I can tell you what I did to write my Ph.D. dissertation. I am actually just finishing up and graduating this quarter, so this is all still fresh in my mind. I. So, maybe my approach to using Mathematica for completing a Ph.D thesis will give you some ideas. I used a both a Windows 2000 computer and a RedHat Linux 6.1 computer for all of my analysis and writing. I did almost all of my data analysis on the Windows 2000 computer using Mathematica and Excel (I purchased "Mathematica Link for Excel" form Wolfram - thank God for their student pricing). I produced all of the graphics for my thesis using Mathematica, since the graphics are so good and they can be written out in EPS format, which is "Latex friendly". However, I did all of the writing in Latex using good old emacs on my Linux computer. I suppose I could have attempted to do all of the writing in Mathematica, but I chose not to because my University has strict rules about the physical structure and appearance of dissertations (as probably yours does too), and there were already Latex "templates" I could use that were created by graduate students who had gone before me. So, for me using emacs+latex for the writing seemed like the path of least resistance because I didn't have a Mathematica "style sheet" that satisfied my university's requirements. Note that emacs and Latex do run under Windows, so in principle I could have done everything under Windows if I had wanted to. However, I had a lot of trouble using Latex under Windows mainly due to the differences in the path specifications between Windows and Linux. If I didn't already have the Latex "templates" that were customized for my University, I might have looked into learning how to write a Mathematica style sheet for a dissertation. However, it wasn't clear to me that Mathematica's front end is even rich enough to produce all of the output tha t most dissertations require (i.e. curriculum vitae, table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, bibliographies, appendices, etc.). From my personal experience, Latex really is a pretty good platform for writing a dissertation. I did, however, create all of the equations, and some of the tables, for my dissertation using Mathematica, and then wrote them out using Mathematica's TeXForm command. This was *alot* easier for me than learning all of the subtleties of Latex and Tex. Well, I hope maybe I gave you some ideas about how to approach using Mathematica for use in preparing a Ph.D. dissertation. Good luck! Regards, Matt -- Matthew D. Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston at SLAC.Stanford.EDU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonghee Lee" <jonghee at glue.umd.edu> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg27647] [mg27640] Thesis > I wonder if it is feasible to write a thesis or > any other scientific documentations using Mathematica. > > > -- > > Jonghee Lee > University of Maryland > Department of Physics > Gravitation Experiment > College Park, MD 20742 > > Tel. 301-405-6093(Lab) > 301-405-6092(Office) > > > >
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- From: "Jonghee Lee" <jonghee@glue.umd.edu>
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