Saturday, April 06, 2013

[mzmbuhvq] Mathematics notebook for tablet

Create a tablet app for exploring arbitrary mathematics as an improvement over paper.  This is arguably the killer app (of using a tablet for content creation, not merely for content consumption) because mathematics can computationally effectively use a medium "smarter" than paper.

It probably wants several large tablets (to look at several things at once) and a stylus.  And maybe a keyboard.  Hmm... then it approaches a regular computer.

Mathematica probably has some good ideas, but avoid lock-in to proprietary software.

Inspired by Ramanujan's notebooks, which were originally worked out on a tablet-like slate with slate pencil.

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