“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.” ~ Chinese proverb?
I am an applied mathematician. I earn my living doing computer models of power plants. In some of my spare time, I do whatever mathematics interests me.
I have a B.S. from Caltech, and an M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon, both in mathematics. As an undergraduate I took a fair amount of physics, enough that as a grad student, I TA’d freshman physics. Of course, I TA’d calculus; but best of all was designing and teaching a summer course in mathematical modeling, for each of the 3 years I was at CMU.
It might be too conservative to say that my goal is to understand all the mathematics used through second-year graduate school in mathematics, physics, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and economics. But i’ll go with it for now.
That’s a tall order – for me at least – and I’m not there. Frankly, I don’t really expect to ever get there.
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” ~ Robert Browning (via ThinkExist.com).
December 7, 2007 at 1:46 pm
It’s about time – Math Guy!
April 5, 2008 at 10:04 am
Hi Rip,
You just answered a question I had on Mathematica to Tex. I was just browsing through your blog. Thanks so much for your reply! And as you note, I want to do what you are doing. And I gather then that you just edit the mathematica output as needed…guess I’ll have to do that too and get used to it! However, wolfram’s mathworld is generated from Mathematica notebooks directly with something called transmogrify, I will look into how they did it.
My wiki is not public yet, otherwise I would show it to you. It is right now just a “Lab notebook” to share with my advisor and thesis committee.
Thanks again,
Ramiro
April 5, 2008 at 12:51 pm
hi ramiro,
glad to have helped. but i learned something, too, from Jean-Marc Gulliet’s post. i had never seen //TeXForm (ok, he wrote TeXForm[stuff], but i prefer the postfix form.)
i’ve just confirmed, for a matrix in MatrixForm, that %//TeXForm gives me what i need to put into a text-only editor. this means i can limit my translations to what i need, instead of saving an entire file as tex.
you asked a great question on mathgroup. good luck, and please let me know about your wiki.
vale,
rip