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Mathematics On Your Webpage
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Research
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By overconvergent
Posted Wed Feb 16, 2005 at 04:31:21 AM PDT
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One piece of advice that I have been able to give my graduate student advisees is to have a webpage with professional information (here are my research interests, this is a list of conferences I have attended, here is my CV).
One problem that mathematicians have is that HTML isn't really suited to the display of mathematics, beyond a simple description in English ("I study non-Riemannian hypersquares and have published an article on them in the Journal of Obscure Results").
There are two rather different solutions that I know of to this problem.
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| One way to deal with this is to use latex2html or something similar. This takes a LaTeX document and creates an HTML file that should look like the LaTeX original, using Perl. Mathematics is displayed using small images inserted into the HTML at the correct points.
This approach works well and is not browser-dependent (it requires a graphical browser but that's about it).
Another, more recent development (which I found out about via MathForge, who reported on it here) is ASCIIMathML, written by Peter Jipsen of Chapman University. This implements the MathML standard, and can dynamically create LaTeX-like output (you type and the words appear).
ASCIIMathML works in Netscape 7.1, Mozilla and Firefox, and with the addition of the MathPlayer plugin it will work in Internet Explorer 6 too. (It's quite fun to type in random formulas and watch the software display them instantaneously.) |
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