On Writing
Mostly Mathematics
:: completed projects
Jason M. Osborne
Here you will find some recent and not so recent examples which illustrate my evolution towards electronic texts in mathematics whose creative use of images within a graphic novel format might provide authors and readers an educational freedom they might find lacking in traditional texts.
On Maps and Maths and Making Friends: A Curvature Story
(a sneak peak)
An Animated
Curvature Story
Follow treasure hunter and future mathematician Brenna from Australia to America to meet new friend and coder Pete as they write a Not-Proof, try their hand at a Thought Experiment, and enlist the help of Tardis (Pete’s computer) to write a Real-Proof and Draw a Real-Map. All with the help of the Professor’s Indecipherable Notes.
“A Curvature Story”
Now Available on Apple Books
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Still want to read the book?
Want to read A Curvature Story outside of Apple Books?
Want a version for Android on the Lithium ePub App?
Want a smaller file size version without the animations?
Reach out to me from the Contact page to request access to the Bookshelf where these versions can be found.
Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs.
Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape.
Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time.
-Freeman Dyson (Notices of the AMS, Vol. 56 No. 2)
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In the future…
With the completion of A Curvature Story, the groundworks have been set and the technical details worked out for future writings in mathematics that are grounded in an intentional integration of text with graphics. These e-texts could focus on
- @ matrices and vectors in index notation
- @ tensors and index notation
- @ surface geometry and computations
- @ the metric tensor and lengths and angles
- @ extrinsic vs. intrinsic geometry
- @ variations on a theme: differentiation
- @ differential equations in differential geometry, etc. etc
On Matrices and Vectors Using Index Notation
On Tensors
On Surface Geometry: A Picture-nary
The Metric Tensor
Surface Geometry and an Isometric Invariant
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Computations
Variations on a Theme: Differentiation
Towards a Differential Geometry Text