Tag Archives: LaTeX

Hermann Zapf

Posted on 11/06/2015 by

I learned from today’s Guardian that the type designer Hermann Zapf died last week at the age of 96. The journalist focussed his article on Zapf’s revolutionary Dingbats font, but for me and other TeX users, his great contribution was … Continue reading →

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Projective and polar spaces

Posted on 04/04/2015 by

I have produced a new edition of my lecture notes on Projective and Polar Spaces and put them with my lecture note collection. I did this because it seems that people still find some use for these notes. According to … Continue reading →

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Generation, t-designs and other mathematical notation

Posted on 26/03/2014 by

Donald Knuth, a mathematician (his adviser was Marshall Hall, his thesis on algebraic structures related to projective planes) turned computer scientist, became dissatisfied with typesetting while producing his multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming. So he took time off to … Continue reading →

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Beamer handouts

Posted on 06/06/2012 by

During my career I’ve seen great changes in the presentation of lectures and the production of handouts. The original lecture technology, writing on a blackboard with a piece of chalk, is hopelessly old-fashioned now, though I still prefer it for … Continue reading →

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