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TeX is the open-source (free) typesetting system developed by the Stanford computing professor Donald Knuth; (1938--), and is available for all computer platforms. LaTeX is the associated system of TeX macro packages created (initially at least) by Leslie Lamport (1941--). Both of these computer scientists are detailed in the book Out of their minds--the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists by Shasha D and Lazere C (1995) [pub: Copernicus, Springer-Verlag].

LaTeX (and friends) has been greatly extended over the years and is currently the world's leading typesetting system. The XeTeX/XeLaTeX engines give native support to Unicode, and facilitate the easy use of modern font formats (eg, True Type, Open Type).

Installation: Complete implementations of TeX and associated systems for all computer platforms, as follows: Unix/Linux (TeXLive), MS Windows (ProText), MacOS (MacTex). Although all of these are freely available for download, they are large systems (1-2GB) and are most conveniently installed from the annual DVD known as the TeX Collection. The 2009 TeX Collection is available from the TUG Store for about 50$. Alternatively, consider joining your local TeX Users Group, as the DVD is a free membership benefit.

TeX Users Group homepage TUG

UK TeX Users Group homepage ukTUG

TEXonWEB An experimental interactive facility for testing/writing/storing TeX/LaTeX code

Periodic Table of Typefaces

ukTUG LaTeX thesis templates

The TeX family in 2009 recent article on TeX and LaTeX

Asymptote a powerful vector graphics system for use with LaTeX

SVGLaTeX SVG graphics

MathTran WIKI | MathTran (home) ---TeX-based online translation of mathematical content (Open University)

XeTeX on the WEB

XeTeX for Linux

XeTeX Companion (Goossens M; January 2010) [112 pages,3MB]

The Unicode Standard, version 5

The History of Computer Programming Languages

Lorem Ipsum `dummy text' for testing typesetting

Pulfrich effect

The Pulfrich effect (discovered by the physicist Carl Pulfrich 1858-1927) is a most unusual visual phenomenon with interesting mathematical, vision physiology, and clinical applications, which is occasionally exploited for making 3D television programs (a memorable Dr Who episode was made this way--see New Scientist article (1993); 13 November, p.23---as well as an episode of `3rd rock from the sun'). The Pulfrich website is the main location for all things Pulfrich. The 1922 paper in which he describes the Pulfrich-effect is as follows:

Pulfrich C (1922).
Die Stereoskopie im Dienste der isochromen und heterochromen Photometrie.
Naturwissenschaften; vol 10, pp 553--564.

Maths

Am Math Soc (AMS) Notices | Feature column (search) | Bulletin | Maths moments | Maths in the media

Jan Wassenaar's 2dcurves website

Earliest known uses of some words in mathematics Jeff Miller's website

Digital Maths Library (DML)

Digital Library of the Historical Maths Book Collection (Cornell Univ)

Maths Network

Euclid Project (OS mathematics and statistics resource)

American Mathematical Monthly | Mathematical Gazette | PLUS (online maths journal)

JSTOR science archive | arXiv e-Print archive | arXiv frontend

Galois groups (mathpages website).

Euler Wikipedia | EulerProject: problems for solution | Euler Society Newsletter

Some early papers on polynomials

EW von Tschirnhaus' 1683 paper
A method for removing all intermediate terms from a given equation (translated by RF Green, 2003)
---See also Polynomial transformations of Tschirenhaus, Bring and Jerrard (Adamchik VA and Jeffrey DJ, 2003).

L Euler's 1733 quartic paper (E030)
A conjecture on the forms of the roots of equations (translated by Jordan Bell, 2008)
--- original (Latin): De formis radicum aequationum cujusque ordinis conjectatio
(Euler L (1733). Commentarii academiae scientiarum imperialis Petropolitianae; vol 6 (pub. 1738), pp. 216-231 = Opera Omnia, Series~1 (Pure mathematics), vol 6 (Theory of equations), pp. 1-19.)

Ball RS (1866)
Note on the algebraical solution of biquadratic equations. [PDF, 7.9MB]
Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, volume 7 (1866) pp. 6-9, 358-369.

William Freeman Daniell (1817-1865)

WF Daniell was an English army surgeon and botanist. He was instrumental in bringing Calabar beans from West Africa to Edinburgh pharmacologists who then discovered their physostigmine content. Edinburgh physicians then went on to show that physostigmine was the first anticholinergic. Daniell collected plant specimens in Africa, Jamaica, China, and several plants have been named after him. His specimens are housed in the Natural History Museum herbarium and also in the herbarium at Kew Gardens (London). See also online biography

Useful botanical resources are
--- The Oregon State University Botanical Department homepage
--- Natural History Museum (BM) London Botany Department homepage
--- ALUKA resource for African plants

Plants associated with WF Daniell
--- Tetradium daniellii (syn: Evodia daniellii, Korean evodia)

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