My chum the inimitable David Cushing has started a postgrad pure maths seminar at Newcastle. Because there are only a few pure postgrads here, he asked me to give a talk about the stuff I was looking at for the …
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Slides from a talk about zero-knowledge protocols
I’ve just given a talk at Newcastle’s maths & stats Postgraduate Forum about zero-knowledge protocols. I don’t know very much about them but it’s an interesting topic and something fairly accessible to an audience of non-pure mathematicians.
Using Computer Modern on the web
Computer Modern is the family of typefaces developed by Donald Knuth for TeX. It’s so good-looking that some scientists do research just so they can write it up in Computer Modern.
The cm-unicode project compiles versions of the Computer Modern …
Instant MathJax preview of LaTeX typed into HTML textareas
I’ve completely rewritten my write maths, see maths library to be a little jQuery plugin that attaches itself to editable areas on pages, like contenteditable elements, textareas, and input boxes. When your cursor is inside some LaTeX, a little preview …
Slides – “Putting maths notation online”
On Monday I gave a talk at Birmingham at a workshop titled, Using social media to engage students in mathematical sciences. I have no experience of doing that, but I was invited to talk a bit about putting maths …
A little applet to make maths for screengrabbing
Paul Taylor wanted an easy way to write some maths he could take a screengrab of, for use as an icon. Before I intervened he was doing something unnatural with wikipedia, so I wrote a little applet using MathJax: “…
How to get beautifully typeset maths on your blog
Lots of people have blogs where they talk about maths. Lots of these people just use plain text for mathematical notation which, while it gets the point across, isn’t as easy to read or as visually appealing as it could …
You got your art in my maths!
I’ve started a new tumblog as a collection of maths-art intersections I find on the web. It’s at artymaths.tumblr.com.…
takenot.es is the place to write maths and see maths
I’ve added a lot more user-friendly features to my write maths, see maths tool over the past couple of weeks, and I’ve moved it to its own domain.
The tool is now available at http://takenot.es, which I think we …
Write maths, see maths on github
I’ve put the source to my write maths, see maths editor on github. The latest version should always be available there.
In other news, I’ve added support for geometric diagrams using JSXGraph. It’s good for very simple diagrams, but …
