{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "source": [ "# A Brief Introduction to Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "source": [ "Typesetting simple mathematical expressions in LaTeX is straightforward. This very brief introduction should be enough to get you started, but it is not intended to be complete. The typesetting commands usually need to be placed between dollar signs or pairs of them." ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": { "collapsed": false }, "source": [ "The lower case and upper case Greek letters have fairly obvious names (for example,\n", "“`\\delta`” is $\\delta$ and “`\\Delta`” is $\\Delta$). You can look up other common symbols (such as\n", "“`\\infty`” is $\\infty$ and \"`\\pm`\" is $\\pm$) at the website given at the end of this tutorial. Subscripts and superscripts\n", "are made with “`_`” (underscore) and “`^`” as shown below.\n", "