Adam Larios

Hello! Welcome to the math Pre-REU program at Texas A&M.
This site contains some information and resources related to the non-lecture portion of the program.
Please also see the main webpage for the class, maintained by Dr. Gregory Berkolaiko.

Here are a few resources for learning LaTeX:

• A bare-bones "Hello World" latex document.
• A document which goes slightly beyond the basic "hello world", but is still very basic: "Beyond Hello World" latex document.
• My LaTeX paper template/tutorial, the bibliography, and the compiled pdf. This template has a very detailed header which you are free to use and modify.
• Tobias Oetiker's Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX. A good guide for moving past the basics.
• The TeX-Live Users Group Download TeXlive here. It is free, of course.
• You also need an editor. My favorite is Kile, but it only works on Linux.
  There is also TeXMaker, which will work on just about any system (Linux/OSX/Windows).
• Beamer is the LaTeX document class to use for presentations and posters. Here are some resources to get you started:
  • My sample document: Beamer_Sample.tex, Beamer_Sample.pdf
  • A Beamer Quickstart, by Rouben Rostamian, is an excellent resource.

Here are a few basic MATLAB guides:

• A short reference by Guido Kanschat
• A long online tutorial

Information on remote login:

• If you have a Linux or Mac machine, the easiest way is just to open a terminal and enter:
  ssh -X YOUR_CALCLAB_USERNAME@calclab1.math.tamu.edu matlab
  Make sure to replace YOUR_CALCLAB_USERNAME with the user name you use to login in class.
• NoMachineNX and VOAL Tutorial. Use this for Linux/Mac/Windows machines.

Learn Linux, if you are interested:

• Installing Linux is 100% free and very easy. I recommend starting with Ubuntu Linux.
• Some resources:
  • Command Line Introduction,
  • Command Line Tutorial
  • Fourier Transform of Images via GIMP:
  • Installation instructions for Mac and Windows can be found here. To install on Linux, just run these commands (copy/paste in the terminal):
    cd $HOME/.gimp-*/plug-ins
wget http://people.via.ecp.fr/%7Eremi/soft/gimp/fourier-0.4.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf fourier-0.4.2.tar.gz
cd fourier-0.4.2 > make
make install
  • Pictures for transforming: