Wow, that's fantastic, really impressive effort. Two things I noticed which are presumably mistakes - there is some weird typesetting of double fs, and what I think should be a symbol for "x divides y" comes out slightly superscripted and too big. I've never seen anything like either of them before so I have no guesses about what's wrong. Both are pretty obvious to me uploading chapter 1 onto firefox on a mac - maybe its platform specific.
I really appreciate the effort you are putting in to open texts. -Marshall On Aug 27, 9:37 pm, Rob Beezer <[email protected]> wrote: > I've converted Tom Judson's open-source Abstract Algebra textbook > (http://abstract.pugetsound.edu) from Latex to a series of Sage worksheets > (one > per chapter) with almost no compromises (ie the same source also builds a > faithful PDF). Cross-worksheet links are not supported yet in the notebook, > and > I've not yet started adding Sage code to the book, but adding compute cells is > possible and feasible right now. Available as the first example on the wiki > page: http://wiki.sagemath.org/devel/LatexToWorksheet > > The worksheets are packaged into a single zip file, which the notebook will > upload and unpack (mostly even in the right order). There is a live compute > cell at the bottom of each chapter for experiments or annotation via Tiny MCE. > The graphics all begin life as tikz diagrams, so even these have editable > source > code. > > Tom has done a lot of work to modernize the source, since this book was > originally written in the late 1980's. He had to also update the Historical > Note about Fermat's Last Theorem. ;-) I'll be working over the next several > months to add in material about using Sage to study groups, rings, fields, > etc. > Any extra non-obvious ideas about how to leverage Sage in the study of these > topics would be appreciated. Reports of any typos or technical problems with > the current state-of-the-art would also be appreciated. > > I have a few other books in various states of conversion, some have Sage code > already. I'm also going to use Tom's book to further stress-test MathJax, > which > has already resulted in two bug-fixes for the MathJax jsMath-compatibility > extension. I've had help from several people on this, notably Tom Judson, > Robert Marik, Dan Drake, Minh van Nyugen and Davide Cervone. > > (I've cross-posted to sage-devel and sage-edu - sorry for the noise if you > read > both.) > > Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
