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By: A draft version of the blog book « What’s new

A draft version of the blog book « What’s new — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:23:11 +0000

[...] April, 2008 in book, non-technical, update A few months ago, I announced that I was going to convert a significant fraction of my 2007 blog posts into book format. For [...]

By: Using MathTran in blogs and wikis « Jonathan Fine’s weblog

Using MathTran in blogs and wikis « Jonathan Fine’s weblog — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:37:02 +0000

[...] In fact, let’s start with Terry Tao’s blog, which is on WordPress. In case you didn’t know, Terry Tao is an eminent and talented young mathematician who is extremely web-savvy. He decided to move from a static web-site to a blog for his news and discussion articles about a year ago. Original he moved to blogspot, but then soon moved on to WordPress, because it gave better LaTeX support. Last month he told us that he has decided to publish a book version of his blog. [...]

By: t8m8r

t8m8r — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:13:09 +0000

Thanks a lot. I am just starting a blog and thought it would be nice to have tex-version of some of the posts. At the same time I was a bit lazy to convert by hand. Your answer “in any case I want to go through the material carefully” kind of settles the issue for me too.

By: Terence Tao

Terence Tao — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:36:37 +0000

Dear t8m8r,

I am mostly relying on plain old search-and-replace, which takes care of a lot of the conversion, but of course many finer details (particularly in converting links to references) have to be taken care of by hand (and I want to go through the material carefully in any case).

By: t8m8r

t8m8r — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:50:30 +0000

If it is not secret what efficient method are you thinking of to convert the blog-formatted files to tex format?

By: Technoliterati « ,Never Neutral,

Technoliterati « ,Never Neutral, — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:46:08 +0000

[...] Just recently, my friend Pablo left a comment on this blog with a link to mathematician’s Terence Tao’s blog, where he explains the process of making a book out of his blog posts. A professor of the [...]

By: Terence Tao

Terence Tao — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:41:55 +0000

Dear Roberta,

I drafted the contents list before the Einstein post (the last post of 2007!). But thanks for reminding me to put it in. I hope to put an updated version of the book here in a few weeks.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:29:22 +0000

Congratulations!!

“Why global regularity for Navier-Stokes is hard” and “The parity problem in sieve theory” are my favourite ones.

But why not “Einstein’s derivation of E=mc^2″? I really like this post. ( (a) restriction? =P)

By: Max

Max — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:13:04 +0000

Oops sorry, I didn’t notice that you’ve already answered to this question.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:11:28 +0000

Dear Terry,
I would also like to hear your opinion on publishing the book under CC license and why do you have this opinion.

Thanks. :)