News from TMP - 1 September 1994
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Dear All, 

Here are some items of news for the AUGUST period. This mailing list
has been compiled from people making direct enquiries to TMP, and from
email addresses left in the FTP logfile; if you don't wish to receive
any further mailings, please let me know [p.kent@ic.ac.uk]. Previous
newletters are stored on our server in directory project/Docs.


FEEDBACK:
We appreciate very much all comments and suggestions about our
materials, be they good or bad, superficial or profound. If you do
download and look at our stuff, please spend a few minutes collecting
your thoughts, pressing computer keys, and sending the result to us
(tranmath-proj@ic.ac.uk). As a short-term project looking to renew its
funding next year, we need to know if we have any "customers" out
there.


NEW DISTRIBUTION:
Our server now contains a upgraded version of the TMP materials, which
includes the following NEW MODULES:
 * Integration, parts 1, 2 & 3;
 * Matrices, part 2. 
The documentation on the Diagnostic Test promised in the last
newsletter remains some way from completion, but I'm working on it.


DIALOG BOXES:
As promised, we're working now on custom dialog boxes (created using
MathLink) for use with our interactive exercises. Prototype versions
for XWindows and PC/Windows are ready, and will be available shortly.
Work on the Macintosh version will begin soon.


ACCESS BY E-MAIL:
In addition to the ftpmail servers announced in the last newsletter,
there is a new service at the Mathematics Archives---University of
Tennessee, Knoxville.
 
  * ftpmail@archives.math.utk.edu

The TMP ftp server is mirrored at this site, so this is the preferred
ftpmail site in the USA for accessing our materials.



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 .

Please send *technical* questions about WWW/gopher/ftp and 
the TMP software direct to p.kent@ic.ac.uk .