Ma 375 A course in Communicating Mathematics with Maple and LaTeX given by Paul Eakin and Carl Eberhart Department of Mathematics University of Kentucky

Class 1 The Tools n Maple n LaTeX n Chisel CD

What are Maple and LaTeX? n Maple is a language for posing, investigating, and solving mathematical problems. n LaTeX is a language for preparing Mathematical documents for publication. n A knowledge of these languages equips you to communicate mathematics both with yourself and with the outside world.

More on Maple n Worksheet Environment -- like a sheet of paper n Use it like a graphing calculator n Use it to make 3d movies n You can do algebra in a Maple worksheet n Maple has a large mathematical vocabulary n You can extend the vocabulary n You have to buy it (think: “it’s a book”)

More on LaTeX n You don’t have to buy it n Based on TeX, a mathematical typesetting language invented by Donald Knuth n LaTeX is used extensively by the scientific community at the university level. n Use it to write math texts. n Maple worksheets can be exported to LaTeX.

The Chisel CD n Has a complete LaTeX system on it called MiKTeX. This can be run right off the CD. n Contains a large database of existing LaTeX source documents, from quizzes to books. n Has a MapleV4 demo worksheet reader with subsistence computational ability n Contains a large database of Maple worksheets, arranged into books.

Installing Chisel n Get the CD from n Stick it in your Cdrom drive n Initially you may want to choose a minimal installation. n After installation, you have a Chisel icon on your desktop. Click It.

Searching the Chisel n Pick a word, like function, and see where it occurs on the Chisel disk n The disk contains mws, tex, dvi, and ps files.. These are read by MapleV4, Wordpad, yap, and gsview32 respectively.

Next Time n We will go through this again in more detail