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The Clowder Project: an online resource for category theory and mathematics (clowderproject.com)
32 points by mathgenius 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I am happy to see more web resources for mathematics, especially focusing on typesetting math on the web; students who want a quick reference, class summary etc. benefit particularly from not having to load a pdf (usually on their phone), but rather have reflowable text on the browser.

I used to write class diaries for my classes like this [0] and the lack of tex rendering was a serious limitation. Taking inspiration from the Stacks project [1] (whose backend seems to be the same as that of the Clowder project), I started writing latex on the web [2] although my methods are very amateurish compared to those websites.

I still like pdf the best for large or serious mathematical texts, but I think we should be putting more mathematics directly on the web to make it more accessible and convenient for people.

[0] https://sites.google.com/view/ykonstant/Home/math-1260-s17/c...

[1] https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/

[2] https://ykonstant1.github.io/power-draft.html




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