The website for Mathematical Economics has
been given password protection during its development phase. We anticipate that
the site will come online in August 1999. Until then, you will need a username
and password to access the material. A username and password can be obtained
from Dr. Blecha.
You will need the following plugins or software to fully utilize the site.
Adobe's Acrobat Reader: You will need Acrobat to read the
exercise answers and homework sets. Depending on your browser and computer
memory, Acrobat can sometimes require a little patience. It is always a good
idea to have the most resent version of your browser installed on your
computer. All of our Acrobat files have their fonts embedded. This means that
it may take a few minutes for all the fonts to appear on your computer screen.
This is especially true for some of the mathematical symbols. Once you see all
the fonts, you should be able to print the document. For the best printing
results, Adobe recommends that you use the Print button in the Acrobat toolbar
rather than you browser's Print command. Should you have trouble printing, open
the printer dialog box and tell the printer to download TrueType fonts as
bitmaps. If this doesn't work, go back to the dialog box and tell the printer
to print TrueType fonts as graphics. If you still have trouble printing, send
us a note in our guestbook. We will try
to help you work through the problem.
Scientific Notebook (TM): Most of the computer labs use
Scientific Notebook. You can download a 30 day timelock version of the
software.
Shockwave Flash
Player. We use Flash3 from Macromedia throughout the site. If you see a
blackboard below, you already have Flash3 installed either as a plugin for your
browser or as a browser standard. Click the chalk to watch Flash3 draw a demand
and supply diagram. If you do not see the figure, download the player. The
player is very compact (150K) and transparent once it is installed.
MathML: We use the new W3C
MathML standard for writing equations. We will have plugin information posted
here in the near future. For right now, you can take the link to MathML to
learn more about the standard and putting equations on the web.