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Generally useful tools
for all students
enrolled in Math 512. Within each area, the tools are listed in
no particular order.
Mathematical resources:
Computational resources:
- In addition the workstations in the MEC Lab, there several
workstations in the Undergraduate
Lounge (Ewing 336) that you are welcome to use. MikTeX is
already installed on all of these Windows machines.
- Download
a free Acrobat reader so that you can read PDF files.
- The MikTeX LaTeX
distribution for windows. The TeXShop distribution is free for Mac users. If you are using any mainstream Linux
installation, you probably already have a LaTeX distribution.
- The Tortoise SVN
client for windows. (Again, Linux installations already have a
SVN client.)
- Ghostscript
is a neat tool for converting postscript files into jillions of other
formats. Postscript is a graphics language which under optimal
circumstances allows one to represent lines, arcs and other objects
rather than bitmapped approximations of them. When driven by
other software, ghostscript allows you to view postscript files on your
screen and print them on your printer.
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If you are a Windows users and you are sick of using notepad, try emacs. It's very powerful and includes built-in syntax highlighting for LaTeX files. Windoze users can download a precompiled binary here.
- A quick LaTeX demo (pdf version if you have not gotten latex working yet) and
another demo on figures and references.
- JabRef is a very nice free tool for managing your bibliographic database. It's a java app and should run on any platform with a Java virtual machine.
Laboratory resources:
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