free math software

[sheeny (Al)]

Brian,

If you have MS Office, up to 2003 there was an equation/formula writer in MS Office Tools. In 2007 onwards it has been merged into Word. If you have MS Word 2007 or later go to Insert, Equation.

Al.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by sheeny

Brian,

If you have MS Office, up to 2003 there was an equation/formula writer in MS Office Tools. In 2007 onwards it has been merged into Word. If you have MS Word 2007 or later go to Insert, Equation.

Al.

Yep, Al, that's what I use.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by mjc

LaTeX appears to be the language of choice but I have not tried LaTeX - OpenOffice works for my own private writings.


Mark C.

LaTeX is not too bad, Mark. I've used it a number of times when compiling assignments and other articles. Actually, quite a few journals have their own LaTeX standards and api's to use for article submission. If you use a Mac, grab yourself a copy of MacTeX. It's pretty large (about 1GB) but it has quite a few extra bits and pieces apart from the LaTeX program itself. Well worth the download.

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by Brian W

make that Brightstorm.
B.

Oops that was my error.

Can't spell, can add.

Cheers

[Brian W (Brian)]

Not quite state of the art but for the teachers or simply those who are interested in how things used to be done

http://books.google.com/books?id=F4c...page&q&f=false

a rather long URL but it is a textbook from 1836 for the use of the Royal Military Academy and I find it an interesting read.
Brian

[bojan]

A classic...

For your convenience, I put some effort into finding a direct link for download of this book..
see here.

However, be careful: this book may be a bit too concentrated on practical issues and problems.. it is accurate of course but it may lack the wide enough insight into mathematical way of thinking... Perhaps you need something more modern... it is a pity you can't read Russian (my assumption) - they used to have a lot of very cheap books (some of them were re-prints, sold for a fraction of price.. books written by Demidovich were favourite reference at uni for lots of us.. I found the English translation here)
This is just my feeling at the moment, I might be wrong.

[Brian W (Brian)]

Originally Posted by bojan

A classic...

For your convenience, I put some effort into finding a direct link for download of this book.. snip

However, be careful: this book may be a bit too concentrated on practical issues and problems.. it is accurate of course but it may lack the wide enough insight into mathematical way of thinking... Perhaps you need something more modern... it is a pity you can't read Russian (my assumption) - snip

This is just my feeling at the moment, I might be wrong.

Thanks Bojan, I now have volume 2 as well as volume 1 plus Demidovich's work. It does concentrate on the practical but then it was for the military.

Growing up in English Canada meant that I had to take French in high school. Ended up taking the same year 4 times... your assumption about me not reading or speaking Russian is correct.

The good news is that I am having a lot of fun with the algebra... I find the joy in moving the numbers and finding the solution very similar to the joy I have with star hopping.

Brian

[higginsdj]

You might want to ponder over something like SpaceTime (http://www.spacetime.us/). All platforms including iPad with excellent 3D plotting and animation thereoff.

Cheers

[Brian W (Brian)]

Hi David, ponder over may well be the right term. Downloaded it and while it will take me a while to work through the tutorials it certainly makes it easy to put in the formulas and equations.

This could well be my pen and paper.
Brian