Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!trantow From: trantow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mathematical formula programs wanted. Keywords: MATH FORMULA GRAPHICS Message-ID: <6180@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 14:08:00 GMT References: <1990Sep6.220202.24679@uokmax.uucp> <35721@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: trantow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 30 In article <35721@unix.cis.pitt.edu> stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric G. Stern) writes: >In article <1990Sep6.220202.24679@uokmax.uucp>, drtiller@uokmax.uucp (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes: > >> A customer came into Amazing today looking for a program that will allow him >> to enter mathematical formulas with complex symbols to export to a desktop >> publisher... >> He has used TeX and PROFF, but would rather not have to use a >*Real* Ph.D.'s write their dissertations with TeX. And what a miserable > Eric Stern > stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to play with a Mathematics program such as MacSyma, Mathematica, or Maple rest assured that computer mathematics is moving forward. RAPIDLY!! MacSyma is old and it shows on the versions that I have seen. Mathematica is a huge step forward, well hyped, and well supported. The drawbacks are that it is a memory hog and not available on the Amiga. Maple seems to be the answer on the Amiga. I sent in for one of their demo disks (Mac disk) and I was quite impressed. Oh yes, back to the original subject. These math programs all recognize the importance of TeX and will spit out the formulas and graphics in TeX or LaTeX format. I take a class a semester at my job site and email homework to professors at the university. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jerry J. Trantow | When you call a thing mysterious, 1560 A. East Irving Place | all it means is that you don't understand it. Milwaukee, Wi 53202-1460 | Lord Kelvin (414) 289-0503 | _____________________________________________________________________________