How Should a Perfect Computer Aided Assessment Package in Mathematics Behave? / Letters to the Editor re: MathSciNet

TREEFROG: A Natural Algebraic Interface?...With the TREEFROG project we have long been seeking to provide a mathematical assessment tool which allows students to type in mathematics in a way which is a similar as possible to pencil and paper, but with a certain “intelligence” built in. I am sure we have not succeeded fully, as I shall explain below; but I would like to initiate (or, more correctly, continue) debate in this area with a view to agreeing as a community what is desirable in such an environment. Please feel free to give your responses to the questions raised here, as described at the end of the article…/… Letters to the Editor re: MathSciNet fromPaul Reynolds: MathSciNet, the mathematical database published by the American Mathematical Society, provides web access to the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Its coverage goes back to 1940, the year when Mathematical Reviews commenced publication…