a wonderful way to publish math
Latex is a great way to publish your research and to type up great looking papers that have wonderfully depicted math symbols. There are many web sites on the web that have well written tutorials and guides that help in making latex documents and pdfs and such. So, I thought that I would make a section for looking up particular symbols and some tips on how to get you started with Latex.
Check out the links page to get directed to MikTek which is a decent program that will compile your latex markup.
Here is a basic (very basic) document that will help you to get started writing math in a latex document. So, here is the basic structure of a latex document…
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
Theorem 1.2
\end{center}
some text
$\alpha$
\end{document}
The output for this markup will look something like this…
Theorem 1.2
some text α
Notice that, in order to display an α we had to enclose the word alpha in dollar signs ($). This is the standard way to begin writing math formulae in latex. For some commonly used math symbols, try out Math Symbols in Latex.