I looked at a sample chapter; I don't read much Polish at all, but some of it still makes sense. ;-) More seriously, I liked how some of the graphs are diagrammed (snake picture) but not too many and the typeface. Can I ask what typeface that is?
john perry On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 8:52:24 PM UTC-6, Andrzej Giniewicz wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to mention a new book using Sage I co-authored, that got > released last week. > > It is in Polish and covers all mathematics topics from high school, > according to the current core curriculum in Poland. It is not a > textbook, but supplemental material, which aims to wake up the > imagination on the way to proper understanding of mathematics topics. > This is why decided to use mathematical package to remove the burden > of calculations, and this is why we also decided to use lot of > references to pop-culture and imagined stories - sea snake named > Ssstefan approaching the Viking ship helps to understand function > transformations, Brian the crocodile tamer helps to see overlapping > intervals. > > We covered all major interfaces (Cell, Cloud, Notebook, iPhone, > Android apps). It is 352 pages, typeset using PDFLaTeX+SageTeX package > (we had to adjust it a bit, because we decided to save images in SVG > and then convert to TikZ using https://github.com/kjellmf/svg2tikz - > for 3D graphics we decided to output png from Tachyon and then added > overlay in TikZ, which was more tricky, but also worked). > > It would be cool if our book could be mentioned on > http://www.sagemath.org/library-publications.html#books - and it would > be also very helpful if we could hear some opinions. Especially, that > we have some plans on making an English version in the future - and > any opportunity to improve would be great (we need to find some budget > for professional translation service, as there are jokes and ideas in > the book that do not translate 1-1). > > Below are some release informations: > > Authors: Andrzej Giniewicz, Katarzyna Zajączkowska > Title: "Zrozumieć matematykę z pakietem Sage" (translation: > "Understand mathematics with the Sage package") > Publisher: GiS (http://www.gis.wroc.pl/) > ISBN: 978-83-62780-42-6 > Year: 2015 > Web page: http://www.eurekacode.com/matematyka > > Sorry, but web pages are in Polish. > > It is kind of self-promotion, but I think it is still relevant. (btw, > do we have separate list for such announcements?) > > We are looking forward to hearing some opinions, > Thanks, > Andrzej Giniewicz & Katarzyna Zajączkowska. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
