The most recent notebook I have found for Modern Differential Geometry of CURVES and SURFACES with Mathematica by Alfred Gray, Elsa Abbena, Simon Salamon are here:
http://webmath2.unito.it/paginepersonali/abbena/gray/
They do not work properly under 10.4.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit). Some of it is not too hard to fix. But some of the problems are arcane. For example, after fixing the argument list for Arrow[] , and putting "Section" in quotes in Figure 1.1, I get
Syntax::sntxf:
"" cannot be followed by
"{0,0}, \[Gamma][\[Pi]/6]}]}".
If I copy the code into a new notebook, it works. Not only that, the error message differed if I revert to the original notebook, and make the exact same changes to the code. There are several notebooks, and I would rather not debug each by hand.
Any ideas where I might find updated notebooks, or some way to update the existing notebooks programmatically?
Edit to add: I'm finding that a combination of sledge hammer and duck tape has rendered a couple of the notebooks usable.
That is:
- Revert the Stylesheet to default.
- Select the largest possible cell group and set "Format"->"Word wrapping"->"Wrap at Window Width".
- Copy the Mathematica input code from the existing cells to new Input cells.
- Remove "$<<$Graphics
Arrow". - Wrap all the argument lists in existing Arrow[]s in $\left\{\right\}$.
- Remove ";"'s (semicolons) from the ends of code that is intended to display graphics.
- Remove/replace legacy commands.
- Manually re-enter code that still refuses to cooperate.
- Copy code to a "scratch" Notebook for testing.
- Frequently restart the kernel.
- Occasionally utter profanity.
It would really be nice to see this code updated so that a novice with Mathematica could use it to learn both differential geometry and Mathematica using Gray's wonderful book. I will suggest focusing on function over form, when it comes to the use of Stylesheets.
