Mathworld and it's saga of a legal battle with CRC Publishers

[Charchila]

Originally posted by dhurandhar
cha pai....I propose that you open a new forum on "Mathematics and Sciences" with our beloved Landya as moderator

Then Samaj Shastra

[landyaBhai]

Although this news is old ... check out the description of the problem ...

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A team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, India, has devised a novel approach for detecting primes. The new technique solves a long-standing problem in number theory and computer science, providing a long-sought improvement in the theoretical efficiency of prime-detecting algorithms.


Check out the link:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20021026/bob9.asp

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If anybody is interested in the paper, PM me, I can send you the original version.

[rameshp]

Originally posted by landyaBhai
yep me too ... Mathematica and Matlab

i am forced to use maple in my calculus II class (even in my Calculus I class too last semister). and being a math major, i am supposed to be comfortable with maple! it costs me 15% of my grade! seems like math profs love maple.

anyway, abt the website, it is really good.
i generally use mathnerds.com

the founder of this site was Dr.Ted Mahavier, whose the prof under whom i have an RA. there is actually a new website thats gonna come up. this has lots of math papers, mainly in multidimension (>3D world). we are right now in the process of getting them converted to tex (for permanent retention).

[dhurandhar]

Originally posted by rameshp
i am forced to use maple in my calculus II class (even in my Calculus I class too last semister). and being a math major, i am supposed to be comfortable with maple! it costs me 15% of my grade! seems like math profs love maple.

anyway, abt the website, it is really good.
i generally use mathnerds.com

the founder of this site was Dr.Ted Mahavier, whose the prof under whom i have an RA. there is actually a new website thats gonna come up. this has lots of math papers, mainly in multidimension (>3D world). we are right now in the process of getting them converted to tex (for permanent retention).

is your textbook the one by James Stewart or by Edwards and Penney? Just curious

Also, if you are an RA....don't you have to be atleast a senior undergrad or first level grad student to be one??

[rameshp]

Originally posted by dhurandhar
is your textbook the one by James Stewart or by Edwards and Penney? Just curious

Also, if you are an RA....don't you have to be atleast a senior undergrad or first level grad student to be one??

the book we use is Calculus by James Stewart ( one huge book weighing around 10lbs ).

yeah, to be an RA, u need to be atleast a senior but even though i am an undergrad (freshman) i got it probably coz there arent many seniors or american grads who are interested in this stuff (i really dont know y coz my prof pays a good $10/hr) and the NSF, the funding agency, has restrictions on employing foriegn grad students for this project (again, i dont know the reason but it turned out good for me). and finally the work i do is mostly organising this books, converting in tex format, proofing and graphics in tex. so its like u dont need to know a lot of mathematics (infact, you need to have a very good knowledge of latex esp graphics part).

[dhurandhar]

Originally posted by rameshp
the book we use is Calculus by James Stewart ( one huge book weighing around 10lbs ).

now you will hate me for what I have to say

If you saw how most of engineers here learnt our calculus from Wartikar & Wartikar or Grewal or Shanti Narayan....or those who were more fortunate/rich used Kreyzig or Wylie & Barrett.....that 10lb thingy would seem like spoon feeding to you...atleast it does to me

I personally think, it is one of the best books on undergraduate calculus that i have seen...accompanied by student solution manual for odd number problems...

I think you must have had an awful math instructor or that you are more suited for non math majors

[rameshp]

Originally posted by dhurandhar
now you will hate me for what I have to say

If you saw how most of engineers here learnt our calculus from Wartikar & Wartikar or Grewal or Shanti Narayan....or those who were more fortunate/rich used Kreyzig or Wylie & Barrett.....that 10lb thingy would seem like spoon feeding to you...atleast it does to me

I personally think, it is one of the best books on undergraduate calculus that i have seen...accompanied by student solution manual for odd number problems...

I think you must have had an awful math instructor or that you are more suited for non math majors

well it doesnt really matter coz most of the calculus is a cakewalk for me here( i find it really amusing when my classmates keep asking the instructor to repeat every godamm step and sometimes things as elementary as 1/x = x^(-1)). i prepared for iitjee in india and i do believe i have a good depth in calc and math as a whole. i used TMH(tata mcgraw hill) and shantinarayan and some other books during my 11th and 12th.
the instructor is pretty ok and math is my secondary major(which i will eventually drop and probably would take up something nearer to CS, ur suggestions are welcome), CS being my primary major. so it doesnt really matter upto calc 2 but from calc 3 and furthur i will need to work my a*s off.

[dhurandhar]

Originally posted by rameshp
well it doesnt really matter coz most of the calculus is a cakewalk for me here( i find it really amusing when my classmates keep asking the instructor to repeat every godamm step and sometimes things as elementary as 1/x = x^(-1)). i prepared for iitjee in india and i do believe i have a good depth in calc and math as a whole. i used TMH(tata mcgraw hill) and shantinarayan and some other books during my 11th and 12th.
the instructor is pretty ok and math is my secondary major(which i will eventually drop and probably would take up something nearer to CS, ur suggestions are welcome), CS being my primary major. so it doesnt really matter upto calc 2 but from calc 3 and furthur i will need to work my a*s off.

doing calc is one thing and understanding is another.....the best way to verify that you understood what theorems of calc mean is to write the math jargon in plain words and try to help your classmates understand what is the "idea" behind the theorem....

alternatively, you can attempt "discovery" problems in the textbook which require sound understanding of fundamentals to be able to discover some different features/properties of functions etc. This would actually be in spirit of the website you are working for

If you really understood the calc concepts....you can use them in CS major or any other major that you might take..that's the beauty of math....a fistful of concepts that holds different ideas of science together

[rameshp]

Originally posted by dhurandhar
doing calc is one thing and understanding is another.....the best way to verify that you understood what theorems of calc mean is to write the math jargon in plain words and try to help your classmates understand what is the "idea" behind the theorem....

alternatively, you can attempt "discovery" problems in the textbook which require sound understanding of fundamentals to be able to discover some different features/properties of functions etc. This would actually be in spirit of the website you are working for

thankx. too much calc is very less C++. so off with calc for now. anyway, what do u suggest for a secondary major?(other then math ofcourse).

[dhurandhar]

Originally posted by rameshp
thankx. too much calc is very less C++. so off with calc for now. anyway, what do u suggest for a secondary major?(other then math ofcourse).

depends on what you want to do in life.....if I were you I would take a applied science/engineering minor to be connected to reality....realizing that the nanotech etc is on the horizon....physics or chemistry major might be a good idea