It is far from finished but you can already visit a demo-version of TheLibrary which I hope will one day be a useful collection of online courses and books on non-commutative algebra & geometry. At the moment it just contains a few of my own things but I do hope that others will find the format interesting enough to allow me to include their courses and/or books. So, please try this demo out! But before you do, make sure that you have a good webbrowser-plugin to view PDF-documents from within your browser (rather than having to download the files). If you are using Macintosh 10.3 or better there is a very nice plugin freely available whch you only have to drag into your /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/-folder to get it working (after restarting Safari).
If you click on the title you will get a page with hyper-links to all bookmarks of the pdf-file (for example, if you have used the hyperref package to (La)TeX your file, you get these bookmarks for free). If you only have a PDF-file you can always include the required bookmarks using Acrobat.
No doubt the most useful feature (at this moment) of the set-up is that all files are fully searchable for keywords.
For example, if you are at the page of my 3 talks on noncommutative geometry@n-course and fill out “Azumaya” in the Search Document-field you will get a screen like the one below

That is, you wlll get all occurrences of 'Azumaya' in the document together with some of the context as well as page- or section-links nearby that you can click to get to the paragraph you are looking for. In the weeks to come I hope to extend the usability of TheLibrary by offering a one-page view, modular security enhancements, a commenting feature as well as a popularity count. But, as always, this may take longer than I want…
If you think that the present set-up might already be of interest to readers of your courses or books and if you have a good PDF-file of it available (including bookmarks) then email and we will try to include your material!

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Posted in iMath
Written on Thu, 23 December 2004 at 9:39 am
Tags: Azumaya, geometry, mac, modular, non-commutative, noncommutative
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