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Resources & MaterialsSlides, problem sets, LaTeX templates, coding notebooks, art, and reading materials created or curated by NAMSSN UI students.
LaTeX templates
LaTeX is the language used to write mathematics cleanly at UI. This section can host a small template library for everyday work: assignment sheets, mini-project reports, final-year project documents, and Beamer slides for seminars and NAMSSN events.
The goal is simple: students should understand common syntaxes and be able to use them confidently in their own LaTeX files.
For those who want to learn LaTeX, the LaTeX Lab is the main training ground. It combines:
- • A live editor and preview for writing formulas and short notes.
- • Structured modules on symbols, calculus notation, matrices, logic, and proofs.
- • Subpages on full documents, theorems, and Beamer slides for talks and competitions.
Over time, students can move from copying short expressions into their solutions to confidently writing their own notes, problem sets, and seminar slides from scratch.
Coding & computation labs
These labs focus on four major systems used in modern mathematics: Python, Mathematica, Maple, and SageMath. Each lab is designed so that a student can arrive with no coding background at all and leave with enough skill to run experiments, check calculations, visualise ideas, and build short course-aligned projects.
The path is always the same: start with very small examples (using the lab as a “smart calculator”), then grow into plotting, symbolic manipulation, sequences and series, linear algebra, differential equations, and small research-style explorations. By the end, you should be able to use computation as a normal part of how you think about mathematics.
→ Explore the computation labs:
- • Python Lab — notebooks, plotting, numerical experiments, and simple simulations.
- • Mathematica Lab — symbolic computation, exact integrals and series, visualisations, and research-style exploration.
- • Maple Lab — course-aligned worksheets, calculus and linear algebra, differential equations, and problem-sheet support.
- • SageMath Lab — open-source CAS for algebra, number theory, combinatorics, and experiments that feel close to research.
Manim & animation lab
Manim is a Python library for turning mathematical ideas into clear, structured animations. You can show how a graph changes as a parameter shifts, how a pattern emerges step by step, or how a concept fits together when each piece appears at the right moment. It helps you present mathematics in a way that feels organised, visual, and easy to follow.
This lab is meant to help NAMSSN UI students go from “I have never animated anything” to “I can confidently generate my own clip.” Each page focuses on one small skill at a time, so the process feels natural — write a few lines, test them, adjust, and watch the idea come alive on screen. The aim is to make animation feel less like magic and more like a practical tool for understanding and explaining mathematics.
→ Begin the learning journey: Open the Manim learning path
Math-art gallery
The Math-art gallery is a visual diary of mathematics at UI: curves, tilings, fractals, graphs, algebra diagrams, and posters — all created by students using tools from pen-and-paper to Python, GeoGebra, LaTeX–TikZ, and Manim.
The focus is on turning ideas from real courses into pictures that can be printed, displayed on a noticeboard, or shared online. Typical contributions can include:
- • Easy: curves, contour plots, simple tilings, symmetry patterns.
- • Intermediate: fractals, iterated maps, complex-plane pictures, spectral graphs.
- • Mixed: posters, Manim frames, LaTeX–TikZ experiments.
As NAMSSN activities run, selected pieces can be placed in the gallery with the student’s name, level, course, and semester. Over time it becomes a record of how mathematics at UI has been studied, visualised, and celebrated.
→ Browse the current layout:
Visit the Math-art gallery
Student bulletin
The NAMSSN UI Student Bulletin is a home for carefully written mathematics and reflections: expository notes, essays, interviews, and problem solution write-ups.
The bulletin is curated mainly by the NAMSSN Press team, but contributions from students are welcome. Articles can include full LaTeX, so integrals, series, and proofs are rendered beautifully.
Visit the dedicated bulletin hub here: Open Student Bulletin →