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Wikibook

Here is a first attempt to start a wikibook about Mathematica, which is also a sort of meta book. This introductory page of the wikibook is devoted to a general presentation of the project and an abridged table of contents. The details should progressively emigrate to new pages. Please, let's use the discussion page (link in the left pane) to discuss the project and its organization, so this page will progressively evolve to its final destination.

Wikibooks are often considered only as subsets of wikis, which commonly leads to information duplication instead of cross-reference editing. In order to avoid redundancy, we assume here the wiki and the wikibook should more or less be one and the same thing. More precisely, the wikibook is an attempt to give a structured presentation of the wiki content, plus possibly external content, in the more classical form of a book with chapters and sections, or possibly a collection of books. Nevertheless, a wikibook may be richer than an ordinary book thanks to its active cross-references.

So the wikibook basically consists of a collection of pages with pointers to the wiki content and also to external content. Then writing a wikibook more or less amounts to seeking and collecting information, then presenting and evolving a structure for the huge amount of information available on the web. Evolving a wikibook amounts to restructuring it. As a consequence, the wikibook is a sort of meta-book with cross references, that gathers both general and specialized information, basic, intermediate and advanced presentations, theory and practice? Some parts of the wikibook could possibly be printed as classical books or as lecture notes.

Here is a provisional abridged table of contents:

  • Scope and Implications
  • Overall presentation (Mathematica, other systems?)
  • The computer algebra system (numerics, symbolics, graphics?)
  • The programming language (syntax, paradigms?)
  • System programming (front end)
  • Typesetting
  • Scientific and other applications (maths, physics, computer science, engineering, arts?)
  • Best of algorithms
  • Tips and Tricks
  • Discussion (design principles, scientific role?)
  • Conclusion
  • Exercises
  • Index + links

Let's go?

Contributors to this Page The 3 contributors to this page (ordered by date of first contribution):
User Latest Contribution # Contributions
1. Rbarrere Sun 13 Feb 2005 21:04:17 3
2. LucB Tue 28 Jun 2005 22:45:26 3
3. ChrisChiasson Wed 20 Sep 2006 23:29:42 2

This page was created by Rbarrere on Tue 18 Jan 2005 17:50:04 and last updated by ChrisChiasson on Wed 20 Sep 2006 23:29:42
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