News from METRIC - September 1996
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Dear All, 

Here are some items of news for the JUNE-SEPTEMBER period. 

Previous newletters are stored at:
 ftp://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/pub/docs/newsletters/


"EXPERIMENTS IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS" IS NOW AVAILABLE:

Our book "Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Mathematica-based
approach" is now in print. Softcovers are available now, hardcovers will
follow in about two weeks time. Deliveries outside the U.K. will need a 
bit more time - but your bookseller should be able to order now through the
distributor, World Scientific Publishing Company.

For further details please go to:

  http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/book/

Three sample modules are freely available: Getting Started with
Mathematica, Functions and Graphs, and Differentiation 1.

There is a special arrangement for UK higher education, due to a
contractual commitment from our previous funding as a TLTP project.
For an annual fee (60 pounds, to be confirmed) unlimited photocopying of
the book will be allowed for teaching and research use within an
institution. Please contact us for details.


CURRENT WORK:

We are currently working on "mathematical microworlds" for differential
equations, Fourier methods and groups & symmetry.

Materials and research articles on the work will be available in due 
course. If you are interested, please talk to us!


OUR ADDRESSES
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Margaret James, Phillip Kent and Phil Ramsden,
The METRIC Project,
Mathematics Department,
Imperial College,
London SW7 2BZ.

Tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503, Fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517.

E-mail: metric-proj@ic.ac.uk .

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

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

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