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Project Euclid's Mathjax Displays 'beautiful Math' Online
Equations in MathJax.
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Project Euclid, an online information community for mathematicians, has implemented MathJax, new technology that presents math attractively and reliably on the Web. MathJax is an open source JavaScript-based display engine that enables users to show complex mathematics problems on Web pages. The technology renders standard mathematical codes readable in Web browsers.
"MathJax makes it easy to display 'beautiful math' online," says David Ruddy, who leads Project Euclid at Cornell University Library. "Now, with MathJax, the display problem has been vastly simplified, and Project Euclid users will be able to see math the way authors intended."
MathJax enables TeX and MathML software-coded mathematics to be viewed on any Web browser without new plug-ins or font installations. Project Euclid is using MathJax for a set of 20 journal titles, but eventually plans to use the technology throughout its statistics resources from independent publishers.
From Cornell Chronicle
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My name is Hylke Koers and I work on the MathJax project. Thanks for your interest in our project and the recent implementation on Project Euclid.
I think that the title of this post may be misleading, and I just wanted to clarify that MathJax is a joint project of the American Mathematical Society, Design Science, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The project enjoys additional support from a number of organizations including Project Euclid. More about that on http://www.mathjax.org/sponsors
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