The Renyi Project aims to make self-paced mathematics tutorial software easily available on the internet.  Such software will be written using javascript (hence the connection to Renyi), and consists of three parts:

First, the creation of a set of prototype javascript-based mathematics tutorial webpages.  These webpages will be posted here as they become available.

• Finding the derivative of a polynomial at a point (in progress)
• Finding the limit of a rational function at a point of discontinuity

Second, the creation of components that designers can use to create their own interactive web pages.

• Random prime number generator (generates prime numbers between two specified numbers)
• Coprime number generator (generates a number prime to a given number)
• Primality tester
• GCD finder
• Javascript to graph equations.
• Javascript to typeset fractions

Finally, the creation of a system of an interface that will allow a "natural language" problem to be set up and converted into a javascripted interactive tutorial webpage. The ultimate goal is to allow a teacher to write in a problem exactly as they would on a test, and have it converted into an interactive mathematics web page.

Alfred Renyi (1921-1970) was a Hungarian mathematician who freed his parents from captivity by the Nazis during World War II by impersonating an German soldier and ordering their release: in a culture where authority is unquestioned, no one questions authority. He made great progress proving Goldbach's Conjecture (that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes). Here's more about Renyi.

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