Digital Textbooks for the Mathematically Curious
A platform that brings interactive, mathematical learning content to the iPad. This system is novel compared to previous systems because a reader can interact with the figures on the page and explore mathematical concepts. Scientific content increasingly relies on the presentation and authoring of complex multimedia diagrams and figures, sometimes interactive, to convey information in a non-textual way. Wikis and user-generated hyperlinked content have both been very successful in the case for text---this is what Dan aimed to do for mathematical diagrams. The format used for the eBooks are a synthesis of two open standards: HTML and LaTeX. This allows the non-programmer to author eBooks for the iPad, which enables the publishing of content that may have otherwise not been published.
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