About the Author

As you perhaps noticed, my name is Miroslaw Majewski. My colleagues and my family call me Mirek. 

I am mathematician and computer scientist. As a mathematician I am interested in using technology in teaching mathematics. As a computer scientist I am interested in developing technology that can be used in education and especially in teaching mathematics. In recent years I have spent a lot of time experimenting with Scientific Notebook and Scientific Workplace (SNB/SWP) fromMackichan Inc., that are a very exciting tools for teaching mathematics. We can use them as an electronic whiteboard or for presenting mathematics online and developing online tests. 

After many years of using SNB/SWP I came to the point when I realized how important, for understanding many of the mathematical concepts, are some basic programming skills. This was the point when I started using Maple and MuPAD. In fact, these two mathematical packages are very similar. I cannot really say that one of them is better or worse. I wrote a few papers about using Maple in teaching mathematics as well as few papers about using MuPAD in the same area. You can find most of these papers on my personal web site. As a mathematician I feel a bit more comfortable with MuPAD where a have a few concepts that are the driving force of most of mathematical investigations - domains, categories, axioms, etc. I like also the two wonderful toys that are included in MuPAD - turtle graphics and L-systems. Well, there are a few more exciting things in MuPAD but I will leave this discovery for readers of my books.  

In private life, I like gardening and traveling. In the past I was living in a few great places - small city Lae on the seashore of the Salomon sea in Papua New Guinea, Macau on the seashore of the South China sea in China, and now in Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf in United Arab Emirates. Do not ask me where I will be next? It will certainly be a university where I will be able to teach with MuPAD, write textbooks and papers showing how to use MuPAD in teaching mathematics.  

If you need to contact me, here is my current address:

Miroslaw Majewski
Abu Dhabi, 2/12/2007