Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Chapter 0, due on January 18

1. This section seemed pretty straightforward. I think I probably misuse i.e. and e.g. a lot, so I will have to be careful about them! I will try to refer to this section as I do the homework, because it has a lot of helpful clarification about proper mathematical writing. It's something I've never really done much of before, so I'm sure I'll make a lot of mistakes!

2. This doesn't really have to do with the reading, but I noticed that we're going to be learning about LaTeX tomorrow, and I have a website that might be a helpful resource. I've worked with LaTeX in another class, and one of the students showed us this website called Detexify. The way it works is you draw the symbol you are trying to create in a box on the page, and on the right side suggestions come up for which symbol you might be looking for and what the command is. The URL is http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

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  1. Thanks for reminding me about Detexify. I've linked it from the course webpage.

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