mb@munnari.oz (Michael Bednarek) (10/06/87)
I have no affiliation with Prof. Delbourgo, I just thought I let you know what's going on "Down Under": quoted from "The Australian", 06-Oct-1987 Professor and son team up A mathematics software package, MathBase, has been developed by a physics professor at the University of Tasmania - with a little help from his son, a talented young software writer. MathBase is a utility program providing tables and graphs of all "non-trivial" transcendental functions likely to be met in the analysis of scientific or engineering problems. Its creator, Professor Robert Delbourgo, says teachers of advanced mathematics courses will find MathBase helpful in demonstrating and highlighting the properties of complex functions in varying critical circumstances. With no formal computer training, Professor Delbourgo used his mathematical expertise to develop the functions for his software, then turned to his son, Tino, for help with the screen display. MathBase is compatible at present only with the IBM PC range and the Commodore Amiga, but the Delbourgo team is adapting its software for Macintosh users. Priced at $120 [A of course], MathBase is available directly from Professor Delbourgo, c/-Physics Department, University of Tasmania.