The annex the modems are connected to is geometry. See the section in this guide about using the annex to find out what to do from here. You must be logged in to banach to run Macsyma and on cantor to run Mathematica. Maple will run on any of the Sparcstations. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain documentation for these programs.
Books are available in the library and in local bookstores.
The American Math Society's bulletin board. They are related. Xrn is an X window system interface to rn. See the man pages for rn and xrn for details, and see the writeups on reading the TeX news group local to the Math department using rn and xrn in the Beginner's Guide. Type ''ph name'' where name is the last name or last name and first name of a person at Purdue.