Author Archives: Prasanth Nair

About Prasanth Nair

Prasanth Nair is a freelance software developer with strong interests in STEM education research, especially Physics Education Research.

shutting down

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Prasanth Nair

Shutting up shop; for now. :(

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Latex equations using SymPy

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Prasanth Nair

Latex equations using SymPy SymPy is a symbolic mathematics package in Python. Even if you are not interested in performing symbolic mathematical calculations, you should probably install it for one very useful function: sympy.latex(). sympy.latex() converts mathematical expressions into Latex … Continue reading →

Posted in Python | Tagged latex, latex equations, sympy | 3 Comments

Equinox and Epoch

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Prasanth Nair

Equinox and Epoch The word epoch denotes a particular point in time. In this sense the word has the same meaning in astronomy as it has in day-to-day life. For example, epoch J2000 means the time corresponding to the Julian … Continue reading →