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Revision as of 19:27, 26 April 2006

Welcome to the WikiWikiWeb for Math 354 Vector Calculus.

Topics

• Linear Algebra
• Topology
• Day by Day rundown
• Loxodromes

The main idea behind this site is to give us a place where we can collaborate, share notes, make bad jokes etc. We already have one in the form of the WebCT forums, but this is quicker and easier to use. Wiki is Hawiian for quick, and the essence of this whole thing is that it's fast and easy to edit and publish. Up at the top of the page, you should see a variety of little tabs saying things like article, discussion and such. One of them says edit. You can click on that edit tab and change what it says on this page. There's a whole bunch of magic tricks you can do in the context of editing a page to create new pages, include tables and images, etc...

Help doing stuff

There's extensive help available at http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Help:Contents

Basically, when you go to edit a page, you are entering text in really simple markup language. That just means that some characters have special powers. For example, putting '' around some words makes those words italic.

You can start a new page by putting its name in square brackets[[ name ]]. Saving the page you inserted the link on and then clicking the new link will allow you to edit your new page.

If you want to learn all the magic tricks, go check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

Oh, you should log-in/create an account. It's in the upper right hand corner

Entering Math

<m>e^{i pi} + 1 = 0</m>
<m>int{partial M}{} omega = int{M}{} d omega</m>
<m> 4~8~15~16~23~42 </m>.
We've got a built in capacity to handle Don Knuth's TeX language for laying out formulas. I don't know how to use this yet, but it doesn't look super difficult. To learn more go to http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Help:Math project