Examples: Publishing over the Web

webMathematica adds a new dimension to technical publishing on the web. For the first time, interactive calculations, sophisticated visualizations, and typesetting can be added to virtually any web document.

The implications of this change are profound. Publishers of textbooks and technical manuals can use webMathematica to provide additional value by letting readers experiment and solve their own problems. Publishers can also increase revenue by selling or renting value-added services such as interactive book supplements.

At the same time, researchers can now have their colleagues around the world use or verify their results with very little effort.

Mathematical Explorer, a new interactive text from Wolfram Research, covers a wide range of topics from Escher patterns and square wheels to Fermat's Last Theorem and the Riemann Hypothesis. Every section comes with a historical introduction, biographies of relevant mathematicians, questions and answers, notes, and references for further exploration. Mathematical Explorer mixes text, graphics, and formulas in a friendly, easy-to-use interface that is completely interactive, making the reader a participant and not just a spectator to mathematical ideas. It invites users to explore many interesting questions about both physical and abstract phenomena and to gain insight by computation and visualization. To highlight the nature of this new product, Wolfram Research has used webMathematica technology to make several examples from Mathematical Explorer available on our website.