On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This post is technically a bit off topic, but William suggested that > there are many people on this group who have technical expertise in > mathematics and technology, and a passion for open education > resources.
Interesting project. Questions: 1) I don't see the license statement for the wiki anywhere. If this is "open" then I assume you are using GFDL or something similar? 2) Is there a reason why you are not using planetmath or wikiuniversity (or whatever it is called) or one of several other similar sites out there already? > > With the assistance of a small grant from the University of > California, Santa Cruz (where I am an asst. prof. of mathematics), I > have started development of the "SlugMath Project". Although it is > under construction (not yet ready for wide distribution) It can be > viewed at: http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page > > The SlugMath project is a semantic wiki, which aims to (eventually) > contain a complete curriculum for undergraduate majors in pure > mathematics. This will include a complete derivation of the main > results of abstract and linear algebra, real and complex analysis, > geometry, etc.., that an undergraduate mathematics major might learn. > The presentation will hopefully have the rigor of Bourbaki, although > with much narrower scope, and will be oriented towards the > undergraduate reader. Semantic links allow this presentation to be > structured, to facilitate querying and navigation. > > Much can be written about the goals and features of this project. > Some pages on the wiki that illustrate its features are the following: > * The main help page might answer questions. This page is at > http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Help:Contents > * The help page also has a link to "long term goals". > * The "Basic Number Theory" cluster page demonstrates how knowledge > can be localized in clusters, and deductive connections are > automatically assembled into a directed graph (using the graphviz > package and semantic data). This page is at > http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Clust/Basic_number_theory > * The definition of a group demonstrates how examples are > automatically collected, listed, and sorted on a page. This page is > at http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Def/Group > * The statement and proof of Zolotarev's lemma illustrates the color- > coding and templating of proofs. This page is at > http://slugmath.ucsc.edu/mediawiki/index.php/State/Zolotarevs_lemma > > To get math to appear correctly, without downloading fonts, you can > select "use unicode fonts" from the jsMath control panel options. > Please do *not* join or edit the wiki, and do not publicize it further > (I don't want to have to "lock it down" at the moment). > > With this introduction, I will get to the point of this post: > > I am hoping to find other qualified individuals to join in and work on > this project. In particular, I am looking for practicing research > mathematicians to work on developing the core mathematical knowledge > further. Eventually, I would like to involve graduate students and > others in writing examples and checking for accuracy and consistency. > I am also looking for experienced programmers (e.g. PHP and > javascript) to develop some custom extensions for this wiki -- anyone > with experience writing mediawiki extensions would be greatly desired! > > I am considering applying for an NSF grant within the next few > months. If any mathematicians and/or programmers would be interested > in joining in and applying for such a grant, I would be very > interested to hear from you. Please contact me directly at weissman > AT ucsc DOT edu, or by replying to this post, if you are interested. > > Again, this post is off-topic for the SAGE forum. But, I would > certainly be interested in having SAGE code included in the project -- > one could attach code samples which relate to definitions, examples, > and theorems in the mathematical content area of the website. I am > sure there are other possibilities for integration, which I cannot > think of. > > This is already a very long post -- I would be very interested to hear > your feedback, and hopefully to develop future collaboration. > > - Marty Weissman > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
