[BlindMath] Literature on advanced probability and statistics

Thu Apr 19 14:35:29 UTC 2018

Hi Halena, 

Best course of action depends on what is it exactly that the lecturer
wants the students to get from the bibliography. Is it for example some
data on which they should work (say something like list of nations by
gdp)? Or is it theorems and mathematical techniques which they should
learn on their own?

In any case, it is very extremely likely that there is one main text
which the lecturer follows - either a book or his own lecture notes.

Digitising a maths book from scratch is really out of question without
considerable monetary and time resources (thousands of dollars), and
this should be made clear to the lecturer. As such he/she should find a
roughly equivalent main set of lecture notes on the internet, and then
sourcing a latex file from the author should be very easy. It's really
up to him to do it.

In my opinion, at university level maths only when you have suitable
latex source, your job as the accessibility consultant can properly
start. Everything else is a likely to be a huge waste of resources with
very poor effect. Good luck!

Best,
Lukasz

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:39:58 -0400
Halena Rojas Valduciel via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Lucasz.
> First of all, thanks for the resources you recommend.
> Regarding the reading of university texts, our student has used a
> combination of Latex, Braille and speech synthesis.
> Nemeth is not managed in Venezuela, as far as I am aware of at any
> educational level; in fact, the majority of blind students are
> directed towards the humanities area.
> Those few who obtain the baccalaureate in sciences, use the unified
> mathematical code, or some alternative with synthesis of voice
> It is the first time that a blind student attends this degree and goes
> so far, so they do not have many previous experiences, nor with
> accessible university texts in the area of advanced mathematics.
> Depending on the teacher, the  files are usually provided. tex with
> which the practices and other files are generated in PDF format.
> The problem is that in this subject, the teacher sends his students to
> consult the bibliography, and until now we have not obtained it
> digitalized.
> Anyway, thanks for answering.
> Have a nice day.
> Greetings, Halena.
> 
> 2018-04-18 17:05 GMT-04:00, Łukasz Grabowski via BlindMath
> <blindmath at nfbnet.org>:
> > If it's advanced then presumably the student took already some maths
> > courses, if so how did he/she access university maths textbooks?
> > Audio, nemeth, reading latex code?
> >
> > You can have a look here for probability (2nd year course):
> > http://maths.lancs.ac.uk/grabows1/web/accessible/math230/math230_notes.tex/index.html
> > and here for stats (2nd year course):
> > http://maths.lancs.ac.uk/grabows1/web/accessible/math235/Math235-2016Lec_new.tex/index.html
> >
> > For 2nd year courses these are relatively easy. You need NVDA with
> > mathplayer to access the maths - it should produce either an audio
> > output or nemeth. Having said that these were prepared for non-blind
> > vis impaired student, and noone's ever checked if audio/nemeth is of
> > good quality.
> >
> > If it is latex which you're looking for then likely eihther lecturer
> > prepare their own notes or he should do his job and look for
> > suitable lecture notes on the internet with latex source publically
> > available (it's really the lecturer who should do it)
> >
> > Best,
> > Lukasz
> >
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:42:16 -0400
> > Halena Rojas Valduciel via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >  
> >> Hi, everyone.
> >> I am Halena Rojas, accessibility consultant and teaching assistant
> >> of the computer school of the Faculty of Sciences of the Central
> >> University of Venezuela.
> >> We have a blind student, taking Probability and Statistics in the
> >> bachelor's degree in computer science.
> >> I would like to know if there is a literature on advanced
> >> probability and statistics in an accessible digital format.
> >> Since I am also blind, I can not adapt the materials that we have
> >> in physics without the intervention of someone who can correct the
> >> mathematical expressions that do not fit well after the
> >> digitalization.
> >> Thank you very much to anyone who can give me information about it.
> >> Regards, Halena.
> >>
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