Communication of Mathematics with TEX

Authors

  • Barbara Beeton
  • Richard Palais

Abstract

Mathematics publication has changed radically over the past 50 years, for both authors and publishers. What once required a skilled compositor to produce can now be accomplished, with the aid of computers and software, directly by authors. One key component of this change is the TEX typesetting program. This software, designed by a mathematically discriminating computer scientist and made freely available, is now in operation on nearly every computer system in common use.

Author Biography

  • Barbara Beeton
    Barbara Beeton is a long-time employee of the American Mathematical Society, where she has been involved in technical support of typesetting ever since installation of the first computer. She is a founding member of the TEX Users Group (TUG) and editor of their journal, TUGboat. She has been a representative to U.S. and international standards working groups with a focus on document processing, and she represented STIpub to the Unicode Technical Committee in the effort to expand Unicode to accommodate mathematical notation.;Richard Palais was the Founding Chair of the TEX Users Group. He was a member of the AMS Board of Trustees from 1972 to 1981 and its chair from 1977 to 1979. He is professor of mathematics emeritus at Brandeis University, and since 2004 he has been on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine.

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Published

2016-08-01

Issue

Vol. 50 No. 2 (2016): special issue: reflecting on 50 years of Typograph

Section

Journal Article