WebMath: Cubic equations (and Mathwright)

[Alan Cooper]

There does seem to be a lot of nice interactive material in the Mathwright
Library, it's certainly worth the time to download the viewer and take a
look.

Also Jim White might in fact be willing to provide users of the Mathwright
authoring program with the wherewithall to make their material accessible
via the free reader. This would certainly make it a more viable option for
developing one's own material.

Alan Cooper wrote:

> The main reason I never adopted MathWrite myself (despite having been
> very impressed with some materials that I had seen made with MathKit)
> was because it appeared that the "free reader" could only access
> material in the proprietary MathWrite library and that to read material
> not submitted to (and accepted by) the library would require each
> student (or lab station) to pay an additional US$50 for the unrestricted
> reader. Thus if  I compose using MathWrite my only effective puplic
> distribution channel is through the MathWrite library and if I want to
> prepare materials for my own students they each have to pay US$50 to
> someone else in order to read what I write.
>
> At first, when I read your posting, your reference to the "free reader"
> led me to think that I had misremembered something or maybe your policy
> had changed, but on checking your site I see that it's still the same.
> This is very disappointing.

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Alan Cooper (acooper at langara.bc.ca , http://www.langara.bc.ca/~acooper)
Dep't of Mathematics and Statistics (http://www.langara.bc.ca/mathstats)
Langara College        (http://www.langara.bc.ca )
100 W 49th Ave. Vancouver BC
Canada    V5Y2Z6       Tel(604)323-5676,Fax(604)323-5555
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