Re: Mathematica and Education
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- Subject: [mg65094] Re: Mathematica and Education
- From: Mike <m.HoneychurcNOSPAMh at uq.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:00:15 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Queensland
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On 13/3/06 3:47 PM, in article dv310m$r1s$1 at smc.vnet.net, "nma at 12000.org" <nma at 12000.org> wrote: > "David Park" said: > > "Theodore Gray has provided us with the wonderful > notebook interface. You can have titles, sections, text cells, > equations and > diagrams. It's the style of textbooks, reports and research papers." > > I currently do my homeworks/reports using Scientific word, and if I > need to post some results from Mathematica (a plot or some > calculation), I cut/paste the result in. I found this a little easier > actually for typesetting a report with lots of Mathematics in it, but > this is only becuase I am more familiar with SW for writing reports > with, with its short cuts etc... > > I'd like to spend more time to learn more how to typeset full reports > in Mathematica, I think that would be easier than the way I currently > do it. > > How good is Mathematica Latex output? Can one write a PhD thesis all in > Mathematica for example? any examples on the net of this being done to > look at? > See a recent (sometime earlier this year) posting from Paul Abbott. Paul provided a link to documents (PhD and honours theses) that had been written entirely in Mathematica. Mike