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Demonstration

See MINSE in action on these pages:

some examples on this site (look at the source code to see how easy it is to put mathematics in your own documents!)
an excerpt from an AMS article
a friend's page of MINSE examples
a test script where you can try entering expressions yourself
an on-line chemistry lecture at the University of Mississippi
problems and solutions at Alvirne High School
a solution to an Alvirne calculus problem
a solution to another Alvirne problem
calculus course materials at Pepperdine
a test page by Dylan Northrup at the University of Florida
a calculus tutorial by Paul Pollack
a series of math tutorials at CalTech
a table of data by Skip Montanaro
a test page in Denmark
another test page in Germany
a test page in Sweden

MINSE is a simple, extensible way to express mathematics. Here's an example of an equation you might like to convey:

'deriv(f(x), x) = 'lim((f(x+h)-f(x))/h, h->0)

Write that one expression in one of your documents, and people who visit with a text-based browser will see:

  d                 f(x + h) - f(x)
---- f(x) =  lim   -----------------
 dx         h -> 0         h

while people visiting with a graphical browser will see:

You get both renderings for free when you supply the expression structure. It should also be possible to render out a MINSE expression to speech or to a form usable by other programs, such as Maple or TEX, because the meaning of the expression is preserved.

This makes mathematics more accessible than ever before.

The prototype polymediator is currently operational. The script is located at

http://lfw.org/math/nph-pmpm.cgi

Please feel free to send me your thoughts about this proposal!