New York Journal of Mathematics
Articles in Mathematically-Capable HTML
March, 2006
Copyright © 2006 New York Journal of Mathematics
Introduction
The idea here is that in the years ahead the modern form of HTML
known as XHTML, when extended
by MathML, will be the best
possible form of online presentation for a mathematical article.
Reasons XHTML+MathML is preferable for online use to a format like
PDF or DVI include:
- Content can be scaled to suit the reader's eyes.
- As with ordinary HTML (and unlike PDF), content is re-flowed
when a user “zooms” in/out or re-sizes the browsing window.
- XHTML+MathML is a recommendation of the
World Wide Web Consortium
that complies with the standard
Guidelines for Accessibility.
- With sufficient attention to mathematical semantics by authors who
are so interested, there will be the future possibility of
importing math segments from online article content to
MathML-literate processors such as computer algebra systems.
- With suitable future browser development there could be the
possibility of mathematically smart searching.
- XHTML+MathML will be automatically derivable from future
authoring systems parallel to customary printed output.
Suitable future authoring systems, which will include TeX-like
systems, can make it possible for journals to process articles
without human alteration of an author's source.
Selected Articles for Demonstration
For the convenience of the reader regular links to each of the
selected articles appear below parallel to the demonstration
form.
- Volume 5 (1999), number 9
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Graham Everest
Explicit Local Heights
- Volume 9 (2003), number 8
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Lindsay N. Childs
On Hopf Galois structures and complete groups
- Volume 10 (2004), number 2
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Joseph Silverman
Common divisors of an - 1 and bn - 1 over function fields