staticfile/static — pull request #102 by poolg (2014-02-23 08:29:10+00:00)
Title: MathJax

About MathJax
MathJax is a project of the MathJax Consortium, a joint venture of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to advance mathematical and scientific content on the web. MathJax is generously supported by the MathJax Sponsors.

The core of the MathJax project is the development of its state-of-the-art, open source, JavaScript platform for display of mathematics. Our key design goals are

high-quality display of mathematics notation in all browsers
no special browser setup required
support for LaTeX, MathML and other equation markup directly in the HTML source.
an extensible, modular design with a rich API for easy integration into web applications.
support for accessibility, copy and paste and other rich functionality
interoperability with other applications and math-aware search.
The MathJax Steering Committee

In 2013, the MathJax Consortium invited a group of experts to form the MathJax Steering Committee. This group meets regularly to advise the MathJax team on its development goals and priorities. We’re grateful for the support of the committee members.

Ted Kull, SIAM
Robert Harington, AMS
Bob Hollowell, AIP
David Fullerton, StackExchange
Ken Rawson, IEEE
Paul Mostert, Elsevier
Tim Butz, Cengage
David Carlisle, W3C MathWG and NAG Ltd
Ed Woodward, ConneXions
Gerardo Capiel, Benetech
Neil Soiffer, Design Science
The MathJax Team

The MathJax team is

Davide Cervone
Peter Krautzberger
The team is supported by the staff at AMS and SIAM.

History

MathJax grew out of the popular jsMath project, an earlier Ajax-based math rendering system developed by Davide Cervone in 2004. In the following years, there were many significant developments relevant for web publication of mathematics: consolidation of browser support for CSS 2.1, Web Font technology, adoption of math accessibility standards, and increasing usage of XML workflows for scientific publication.

In 2009, AMS, Design Science, and SIAM formed the MathJax Consortium to enable Cervone and others to design MathJax from the ground up as a next-generation platform, while still benefiting from the extensive real-world experience gained from jsMath. Since its initial release in 2010, MathJax has become the gold standard for mathematics on the web.