News from TMP - 22 June 1994.

Dear All, 

thanks for your previous interest in our work, either by e-mail or ftp
access (yes, I do check the ftp log files). There are a lot of you, as
you can see from the head of this e-mailing. If you don't wish to
receive further mailings, just let me know [p.kent@ic.ac.uk].

The main item of news to report is the improved set of materials
recently put up on on our WWW/gopher/ftp server. This includes NEW
MODULES on Differentiation and Matrices, and a new tar package of
materials for the Unix/XWindows version of Mathematica. The file 
"UPDATE" at the top level of our server (and "hot spotted" in WWW)
contains info on any changes made to the server.  

We are currently distributing these modules:

NEW* Start Here - an introductory Notebook;
   * Complex numbers 1, 2 and 3 [complete];
NEW* Differentiation 1 and 2 [complete];
NEW* Matrices 1;
   * Sequences, Series [complete];
   * Trigonometry 1 and 2 [complete];
   * Vectors 1.

And these are in preparation [due September or before]:
   * Integration; 
   * Matrices 2;
   * Vectors 2 & 3.

All of the existing modules have been through revision to a greater
or lesser degree; they shouldn't contain any glaring mistakes as 
some old versions did. 

Another improvement to our server is the inclusion of PostScript
translations of the Macintosh-based Study Guides (the paper components
of our tutorials) for the benefit of the Macintosh-less amongst you.
These are rather large files (about 2MB each) and so have not been
included in the Windows or XWindows archive packs. 

The DIAGNOSTIC TEST has gone through a few improvements; right now I'm
in the process of adding questions on Differentiation. You can find
the code for this in all the packs (diagtest.m, *DQ.m) and in Unpackaged.
Windows users should note that a new version of Mathematica, 2.2.2, has 
been released, which has the separate Front End and Kernel (like the 
Macintosh) communicating via MathLink. So with this you'll finally be
able to look at our diagnostic test.

We have in the past promised to send out FLOPPY DISKS of materials.
This is troublesome for us (and quite expensive); in fact there are
several floppy disk requests still remaining unanswered. A better
solution for those of you not directly on the Internet is coming: the
TMP server is now "mirrored" at the Maths Archives server in the USA
(Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville) [WWW/gopher/ftp to: archives.math.utk.edu], 
and an e-mail distribution service is due to begin there in the near future.

TMP will be at the European Mathematica Developers Conference in
Oxford in September; if any of you intend to be there we'll be happy
to chat with you in person. In the meantime, we're happy to respond to
any enquiries about our work by e-mail [tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk], post
or telephone. Please note our NEW NUMBERS below; the old ones cease to
work on 26 June.

We plan to improve our World-Wide-Web server with more information
about and "around" TMP; some photos of the recent visit to Imperial
College, and TMP, by H.R.H. the Princess Royal will be installed soon.

Our Addresses
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Phillip Kent, Phil Ramsden and John Wood,
Transitional Mathematics Project,
Mathematics Department,
Imperial College,
London SW7 2BZ.

Tel: +44 (0)71 594 8503, Fax: +44 (0)71 594 8517.
E-mail: tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk .

Gopher and FTP to: othello.ma.ic.ac.uk (155.198.192.26).

World-Wide-Web at URL http://othello.ma.ic.ac.uk .