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Vafa, when are you going to put more notes up? I think it's a good idea.

Here's an alternative way to do last year's 4 unit question on cubics. I bet you thought the answer was x³-20x+24. But that's too boring. Of course, a better question would be that if two distinct points on E: y²=x³-5x+3 are A(x₁, y₁)...

Here's Wildberger's youtube on it. He uses rational trig. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hooQuHLS-kk&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hooQuHLS-kk&rel=1"...

Have you tried integrating it?

I made a more thorough textbook list <a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/texts.pdf">here</a>. Have I missed any? You can do past papers for practice: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/fourunit http://au.geocities.com/ext2papers http://www.geocities.com/fourunitmaths

Patel wrote 2 books. One is an Excel book, the other is a textbook (both of which are into their 2nd editions). Here are the links: http://www.pascalpress.com.au/product-p/9781875312269.htm http://www.pascalpress.com.au/product-p/9781740202602.htm You can get Terry Lee's at...

Here's a more recent video by Darmon (2006): http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/aufzeichnungen/SummerSchool/SummerSchool_20060728-1600_Darmon/avi/SummerSchool_20060728-1600_Darmon_xvid.avi (545 Mb)

There's an easy way and a hard way to learn about the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. THE EASY WAY The easy way is just to watch the videos and read popular accounts. For many years, msri have had a video online Google video has recently added the uktv video to the internet which is better...

No. Before that, he will also be giving a plenary lecture at the ANZIAM conference at the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba. http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/ANZIAM2008/index.php

Terry Tao (2006 Field's medallist) will be giving a special lecture on Feb. 7 which I think serious teachers and students of mathematics would be interested in attending. I'm going! Details: Special lecture to be delivered by Fields Medal Winner, Professor Terence Tao "Structure and...

Congratulations again to Giles Samuel Vernon Gardam for the IMO bronze, but also for coming first in the 2007 HSC for Ext. 2 and winning the T.G. Room medal. <a href="http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/FSTIC_2007_12.html">First Places link for the 2007 HSC</a>

Read EULER AND MODERN SCIENCE N. N. Bogolyubov, G. K. Mikhailov, & A. P. Yushkevich, Editors Translated by Robert Burns EULER AT 300: AN APPRECIATION Robert E. Bradley, Lawrence A. D'Antonio, C. Edward Sandifer, Editors HOW EULER DID IT C. Edward Sandifer THE EARLY MATH OF...

I also prefer it on my own system. MonkeyTeX is only a few weeks old so it might take a while to catch on.

I do use it. MacTeX is OK and the current system contains TeX Live. It also now supports multiple distributions simultaneously (whereas previously this was discouraged). I have TeX Live activated as my default distribution because as you said, tetex has been discontinued. There will be a new TeX...

Textures 2.0 used to be good under MacOS 9, but the new beta version 2.2.0b for MacOS X isn't as good: http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html Hopefully they will improve it because Textures used to be really good. It's just been difficult to update. So on the Mac I now use MacTeX instead.

The net can be quite brutal. So in preparing a document for the net, the end justifies the means. So if the final product from Word is crap (and nobody will look at it) and the multi-billion dollar Microsoft monopoly goes the way of the dodo, so be it. So don't use it. And if you have to...

That's right. I keep telling teachers that but they won't listen. I think people who type maths in Word can be safely ignored. Unfortunately that includes MANSW and the Board of Studies.

Another wysiwyg LaTeX editor is <a href="http://www.bakomatex.com">BaKoMa</a>. But I generally discourage wysiwyg. It's better to use code. It gives you more control. There are also several online latex renderers which you can use to try a bit of code before you go ahead with a full...

I prefer markup language. But if you want wysiwyw, try <a href="http://www.texmacs.org">texmacs</a>.

I use <a href="http://www.pctex.com">PCTeX</a> for PC and <a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex">MacTeX</a> for Mac.