Groups > comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica > #3456

Re: How to write a "proper" math document

From	dr DanW <dmaxwarren@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: How to write a "proper" math document
Date	2011-07-02 09:07 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<iumn46$ac6$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

Mathematica is probably the best environment for what Donald Knuth would term Literate Mathematics or Engineering.  It allows comments in rich text and typeset mathematics in the same document as functional code, data, live plots, and now interactive demos.  The only other product that comes close uses another M product with LaTeX, but Mathematica has the edge over that one with the interactive demos.

This is important to me as the director of a research department.  I am trying to find ways to get my engineers to document their work.  As long as writing documentation is a separate operation from doing work (calculations, data crunching) it will always take the back seat.  However, if documenting is concurrent with working I don't have to tell anybody to go back and finish the job.

Daniel

Back to comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: How to write a "proper" math document dr DanW <dmaxwarren@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 09:07 +0000

csiph-web