Master thesis project for students at KTH
http://www.nada.kth.se/~jaun/Projects.html
NADA, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Equation editor applet with TeX output for the Web

With the development of On-line Education resources, an increasing number of engineering courses (see e.g. [1,2]) are confronted with the problem of rendering algebraic expressions in a web browser. This can easily be achieved with pictures in a static document (such as a syllabus), but becomes increasingly cumbersome when the material is generated in a dynamic manner (quiz questions, discussion forum, etc).

A viable solution using mathematical symbols in the web browser has been proposed using TeX as an input, but has the limitation of asking that students learn what remains an unnecessarily cryptic language. This project aims at symplifying the task for the students, by developping a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET) equation editor where mathematical formulae will be constructed using simple drag and drop opearations with the mouse.

The project is simple from the theoretical point of view, but requires considerable programming skills to develop a useful application in Java or, better, in Jython.

  1. Course 2D4232 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, A.Jaun, TRITA-NA-2003-0305
  2. Course 2D4282 Financial Modeling: Options, Swaps and Derivatives, A.Jaun, TRITA-NA-2003-0306

For further information, contact André JAUN and consult http://www.nada.kth.se/~jaun.