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.
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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
