[Edu-sig] Re: [synergeo] Concrete Mathematics

[Kirby Urner]

>PS: I see Knuth has his own ideas about calculus reform,
>which I'm curious to read.  Just have to find a way to
>get TeX files deciphered in Windows (or BeOS).

OK, I got the TeX thing figured out, and read/printed
Knuth's ocalc.tex from 

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/preprints.html

(under miscellaneous).

He's advocating earlier introduction of O-notation, a
way of writing a quantity that isn't too specific (just
right for some purposes).  He wants to introduce the
derivative in conjunction with O-notation (which CM 
introduces, as well as Volume 1 of TAOCP).

For TeX on Win98, I'm using Christian Schenk's freeware,
downloadable from http://www.miktex.de/ -- seems to
work well.

Kirby