Would you like to read our WorkBooks in your browser? Then here is the place to get the free Java MathwrightWeb ActiveX Control. We call the WorkBooks you read in your browser: Mathwright Microworlds. You might like to visit the Math CAFE, or the MathwrightWeb page for more information about it. The Control will enable you to open the Microworlds at the Library right in your ActiveX-enabled web browser. Just click the "atom" to the left to download and install the Control on your machine. You will be able to read the free Demo Microworlds in the Visualization Studio of the MATH Cafe , and when you join the Library, you will be able to read all of the Microworlds in the Library.


MathwrightWeb is the new 32-bit Java version of Mathwright for Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 2000. We are currently translating all of our WorkBooks into Microworlds. But the range, power, and versatility of MathwrightWeb greatly extend Mathwright 2000, so look for entirely new WorkBooks, as well as 3D graphics powered by OpenGL.

Our new Mathwright32 Reader that you may use to read the Microworlds in the Library is also free. You may download that at any time by clicking the "atom" below to the left. The Microworlds may also be read in the browser as we explain below.

If you prefer to read our powerful new Microworlds offline, just as you read the Mathwright 2000 WorkBooks offline, then just download our free 32-bit Java Mathwright32 Reader. This is the Application version of MathwrightWeb that runs as an independent executable on your computer. You may open and read Microworlds in it without having to connect to the web.
Since it does not run in your browser, it is usually faster than MathwrightWeb, and of course, does not require any downloads, once you have the Microworld on your computer. Also, since it is an executable, it behaves in the familiar way that Mathwright2000 behaves, but is, of course, much more powerful than the latter, and can read more versatile and colorful books.


The Classic Mathwright Player 2000 that you use to read the WorkBooks in the Library is also free to all. You may download it at any time by clicking the "atom" to the left.

Once you have a Reader and you join the Library, you will be able to read the 220 WorkBooks and Microworlds (over 1300 interactive pages) in our growing collection. For more information about how it works, or to join the Library, visit the Join Here Page.


Interested in Artificial Intelligence? Want to learn and program pure LISP? The Mathwright32 Reader is the program for that. On the Objects Menu, you will find an Open LISP Listener item. Select that, and you are in the world of LISP. The online Help file: Lisper Help, contains a Tutorial introduction to LISP, along with a description of the LISP functions available to you. In addition, the LISP directory has 10 working LISP programs which are documented and explained in the online Help that do such things as solve equations, play Mastermind (guess the codes!), do logic programming in Prolog, implement forward and backward chaining expert systems, demonstrate object-oriented programming, and much more. The strangest thing is, it is all free. So what are you waiting for?
This LISP interpreter is different from any you have ever seen. It will interoperate with any Microworld that you create with Mathwright32 Author that is open in Mathwright32. Thus, you can write programs that will graph functions, move sprites, solve equations and simplify expressions -- anything that MathScript can do. And to learn what MathScript and Lisper can do, read our online Mathwright Manual.

Once you have installed MathwrightWeb, then you may "test drive" the Library before you join with any of our 15+ Microworlds at the Visualization Studio of the MATH Cafe. You may read the free Microworlds there in your ActiveX enabled browser. The Introduction to Mathwright32 Microworld is also.

If on the other hand, you download Library Player 2000, and extract it, it will be set up and ready to use. We recommend in that case that you start with the free WorkBook Introduction to the Mathwright Player. It gives a brief guided tour that will help you get familiar with WorkBooks in general. Just click its hyperlink below and then click the Get This WorkBook! button on the Title page, and download it. Once it is downloaded to your machine, run the self-extracting executable: book001.exe. After you run it, you may want to delete it from your download area.


You should find on your Start, Programs, Mathwright Library menu a new folder called: Introduction to the Player. In it, you will find a WorkBook called: Introduction to the Player Demo and a WordPad document called Introduction to the Player Demo (Doc). The latter is the short documentation file that explains what this WorkBook does. Open the WorkBook by double-clicking the icon on the menu. It is a good idea to read this WorkBook first anyway, because it explains how WorkBooks "work" in general.

You will find many free examples of Mathwright Microworlds and WorkBooks at our list of other academic sites that teach with Mathwright. Be sure to use the appropriate Player. These sites use Personal MathwrightWeb instead of the Library MathwrightWeb so please read the instructions carefully.


 Finally, you may download from here, free copies of the complete (printable) manuals in Microsoft WORD 97 Format for:

Based on 18 years of research on the construction of Interactive Mathematical Texts, Mathwright32 Author is the premier WYSIWYG Applet Builder. With it, you can easily create in a few hours (and with experience, in a few minutes!) a mathematical or scientific applet for your website that would, in the past, have required months of work.

And these Microworlds are rich, powerful and dynamic. There are very few limits to what you can do if you have the imagination and the desire to do it. These Microworlds may be read by your students in any ActiveX enabled browser (for example, MSIE 4.0 or higher) or in our stand-alone application, Mathwright32 Reader. Both the ActiveX Control and the application are free downloads from the Library.

 

- James E. White, Ph.D. , Library Director,
author of this website, Mathwright Author 2000,
Mathwright MindScapes, and Lava

 

 

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