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Terry Tao (2006 Field's medallist) will be giving a special lecture on Feb. 7 which I think serious teachers and students of mathematics would be interested in attending. I'm going! Details: Special lecture to be delivered by Fields Medal Winner, Professor Terence Tao "Structure and...

Congratulations again to Giles Samuel Vernon Gardam for the IMO bronze, but also for coming first in the 2007 HSC for Ext. 2 and winning the T.G. Room medal. <a href="http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/FSTIC_2007_12.html">First Places link for the 2007 HSC</a>

Read EULER AND MODERN SCIENCE N. N. Bogolyubov, G. K. Mikhailov, & A. P. Yushkevich, Editors Translated by Robert Burns EULER AT 300: AN APPRECIATION Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio, C. Edward Sandifer, Editors HOW EULER DID IT C. Edward Sandifer THE EARLY MATH OF...

I also prefer it on my own system. MonkeyTeX is only a few weeks old so it might take a while to catch on.

I do use it. MacTeX is OK and the current system contains TeX Live. It also now supports multiple distributions simultaneously (whereas previously this was discouraged). I have TeX Live activated as my default distribution because as you said, tetex has been discontinued. There will be a new TeX...

Textures 2.0 used to be good under MacOS 9, but the new beta version 2.2.0b for MacOS X isn't as good: http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html Hopefully they will improve it because Textures used to be really good. It's just been difficult to update. So on the Mac I now use MacTeX instead.

The net can be quite brutal. So in preparing a document for the net, the end justifies the means. So if the final product from Word is crap (and nobody will look at it) and the multi-billion dollar Microsoft monopoly goes the way of the dodo, so be it. So don't use it. And if you have to...

That's right. I keep telling teachers that but they won't listen. I think people who type maths in Word can be safely ignored. Unfortunately that includes MANSW and the Board of Studies.

Another wysiwyg LaTeX editor is <a href="http://www.bakomatex.com">BaKoMa</a>. But I generally discourage wysiwyg. It's better to use code. It gives you more control. There are also several online latex renderers which you can use to try a bit of code before you go ahead with a full...

I prefer markup language. But if you want wysiwyw, try <a href="http://www.texmacs.org">texmacs</a>.

I use <a href="http://www.pctex.com">PCTeX</a> for PC and <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex">MacTeX</a> for Mac.

Taniyama and Shimura are two people, not 1 Wiles didn't prove their conjecture. Breuil, Conrad, Diamond and Taylor did. Wiles only proved the semistable case which was sufficient to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. I wrote a 1 page summary <a...

I put my notes up at http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/fourunit/2007mansw.pdf

Here are the 3 unit and 4 unit papers (which went online today): http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/exam-papers-2007/pdf_doc/maths-ex1-07.pdf http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/exam-papers-2007/pdf_doc/maths-ex2-07.pdf

Questions: http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/-pdf/2007.pdf Solutions: http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/-pdf/2007s.pdf

I would add Jean-Pierre Serre and Terry Tao to your lists. It is interesting that you are putting Euler at the top. Often people put Gauss at the top of such lists. Anyway if you are interested in Euler, you may want to read 5 new books on him called EULER AND MODERN SCIENCE N. N. Bogolyubov...

This trailer is also on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ZDgjzNeBU

There's a new movie called Hard Problems to be released in 2008. It's about mathematics competitions (with particular focus on the 2006 IMO). The trailer is at http://zalafilms.com/hardproblems/hardproblemstrailer.mov The world premiere of the new movie is the highlight of the Joint...

Terry Lee's 3 unit: http://www.hsccoaching.com/Resources/2007%20Ext1.pdf

Good teachers will not allow the amateurs at the Board of Studies to tell them what to teach.