From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5621 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ellis D. Cooper" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Mathematics via Distance Drawing Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:26:04 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Ellis D. Cooper" NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268146444 23287 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2010 14:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:54:04 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Tue Mar 09 15:54:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Np0oS-0002Qa-1H for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:53:36 +0100 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Np07y-0005OI-A7 for categories-list@mta.ca; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:09:42 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5621 Archived-At: Dear Professor Benabou and all colleagues, At 10:46 PM 3/7/2010, you wrote: >Has the sorry time finally arrived when one can no longer work in >Mathematics unless he knows TeX, LaTeX, and/or other sophisticated >word processings? Should I, and many others it would be too long to >name, stop doing mathematics? > >I'd appreciate answers from all colleagues For years I have been advocating the use of internet technology to allow mathematicians the use of ordinary handwriting and drawing on a single shared "virtual" sheet of paper. For example, I wrote "Science on a Napkin: Virtual Drawing is to Drawing as the Telephone is to Speaking" and made it available in 2007 for dowload at http://distancedrawing.com/Napkin071215a.pdf . Nowadays with Skype (currently free) and high-resolution digital video cameras (low-cost) I am certain a scheme can be worked out to achieve my goal of "distance drawing." But even short of a "single" shared piece of virtual paper, already my collaborator and I routinely share real-time video of each other's pads for free over Skype, and have enjoyed hours of technical conversation. There is no reason that mathematical material cannot be recorded by one or more mathematicians and distributed via the internet to subscribers -- with audio, handwritten equations, and diagrams -- in color. Ellis D. Cooper [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]