Technical Mathematics

Digital Mathematics Library Report of the Technical Standards Working Group

Digital Mathematics Library Some Technical and Organisatorial Suggestions

It is suggested to take DjVu as the basic format for the DML. This format is publicly documented, controlled by software in the public domain (GPL), compatible with all known image and text formats (public domain converters to and from those other formats exist). It is a multi-layer format allowing annotation and linking of the encoded digitized objects, coding and decoding software exists for ...

What ain’t mathematics education?!

Abstract: In 1996 at the first Iranian Mathematics Education Conference (IMEC1) that was held in Isfahan. I obliged myself as a mathematics educator, to inform the mathematics community at large by presenting a paper entitled “what is mathematics education?” to pave the way for the establishment of the master program of mathematics education in Iran. Now, after 16 years, we need to reflect on t...

The Unit of Analysis in Mathematics Education: Bridging the Political-Technical Divide?

Mathematics education is a complex, multi-disciplinary field of study which treats a wide range of diverse but interrelated areas. These include the nature of mathematics, the learning of mathematics, its teaching, and the social context surrounding both the discipline and applications of mathematics itself, and as well as its teaching and learning. But research and researchers in mathematics e...

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS TECHNICAL REPORT Optimal Linear Projections For Enhancing Desired Data Statistics

Problems involving high-dimensional data, including pattern recognition, image analysis, and gene clustering, often require a preliminary step of dimension reduction before or during statistical analysis. If one restricts to a linear technique for dimension reduction, the remaining issue is how to choose the projection. This choice can be dictated by desire to maximize certain statistical prope...