Ripon Good Math

Ripon Good Math is an extension of xlispstat to perform many of our favorite calculus exercises. It is designed with the student in mind: that means that it seeks to overcome many of the kludgy aspects of LISP (e.g. Reverse Polish Notation). Plotting is easy, hidden line removal is available, (REAL!) postscript plots can be produced, help is better, etc. Check it out, and give me some feedback.


My own additions to the xlisp-stat pantheon are contained, for the most part, in the following gzipped tar-file calculus.tar.gz or zipped calculus.zip. Send me email if you want to try using this stuff; I can help you if you can't deal with these formats (gzip and tar have been both been ported to the Mac and PC). See the README file for some details about philosophy, different platforms, etc., and how to unwrap the tar/zip files.

You will need to download and use my version of xlispstat if you want to try any of the following example files.


Luke Tierney, developer of xlisp-stat, has a couple of documents that you may find informative and useful: these are in html format, so they are easy to peruse: a technical report (with lots of interesting examples), and, on a more esoteric note, one on general linear models. I thank Anthony Rossini for converting, and permitting me to use, these files. Additionally, you might want to see an html document for the xlisp-plus language

Multivariate calculus students:

the following are available:


Univariate calculus students

the following are available:

Math Modelling students

the following are available: