Mathematics and equations on the WWW

Author

Hagler, Marion

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

4-7 Nov. 1998

Firstpage

583

Abstract

One of the ironies of the World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is that even though it was initially conceived and implemented for use by physicists, it provided no special capabilities for mathematics and equations. With the release and widespread support of XML (extensible markup language) and the development of MathML, Web pages not only can display mathematics and equations in TeX-like fashion, but, beyond that, retain the meaning of the equations so that they can be opened and processed by a variety of mathematical software applications. The Web thus can expand the scope of its inherent intense interactivity to include equations and mathematics, as well as text and multimedia.

Keywords

equations; information resources; mathematics; page description languages; MathML; TeX-like equations display; TeX-like mathematics display; Web pages; World Wide Web; XML; equations; extensible markup language; mathematical software applications; mathematics; multimedia; Application software; Displays; Equations; HTML; Markup languages; Mathematics; Web pages; Web sites; World Wide Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1998. FIE '98. 28th Annual

Conference_Location

Tempe, AZ, USA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4762-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1998.738745

Filename

738745