Ethan Duckworth's web page

Class information

This semester is Spring 2013 and I'm teaching two courses: MA 252, Calculus II and MA 490: Introduction to Cryptology.
Also, for your use, I've placed here a link to the Spring 2013 Final Exam Schedule (I include it here because it's not as easy to find it on Loyola's main page.)

Papers

LaTeX Guide

I've been teaching my students to use LaTeX, the best mark-up language for producing beautiful documents, especially ones containing mathematics. Here's the introduction and guide and here's a one page symbol guide and here's the One page guide. (If you want the latex source code for these documents just contact me.)

Emacs and TeXShop

Here are some tricks I've found useful in making Emacs (specifically Carbon Emacs with Auctex) interact well with TeXShop.

Keyboard layout for Dvorak and LaTeX

In 1997 I started using the Dvorak keyboard layout for all my typing. But, I figured, if I was going to go through the trouble of learning a new keyboard, why not make it even better for entering LaTeX? So I further customized the Dvorak keyboard. The letters are in the same place as the standard Dvorak, but I moved around some of the other symbols. Anyway, here it is .

Loyola, G-drive and Macintoshes

At Loyola, the networked file server is typically called the G-drive. This is easy to connect to on the Macintosh. From the Finder choose Go, Connect to Server, and enter

 
https://webfolder.loyola.edu/dfs/G/educkworth

where you would replace "educkworth" with your user name. This should mount your G-drive on your desktop, where you can edit and use the files directly.

Citrix on Safari

Loyola is starting to put more and more applications on Citrix Metaframe, which is a web-based distribution. When it works, it's wonderful, and you can access lots of programs right through your web-browser. In the past, you had to set things up correctly to get it to work on Safari on the Macintosh. But these days it should be pretty automatic.

Graduate programs of interest

Here I've gathered some information about graduate programs at other schools that might be of interest to Loyola students.

educkworth "at" loyola.edu