Mathematics
The great power of LaTeX lies in it's ability to easily render mathematics. There are two types of mathematics. Inline and display.
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The great power of LaTeX lies in it's ability to easily render mathematics. There are two types of mathematics. Inline and display.
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Many useful mathematical features require the American Mathematical Society package. Include \usepackage{amsmath} in your preamble
Inline mathematics form part of a sentence and start and end with a single $. Eg.
Display mathematics has it's own line and starts and end with a double $$. You can choose to make your code neater by putting in on it's own line but this is not required. Eg.
Sometimes we want to align the equals sign on multiple mathematical steps. To do this we need to use the amsmath package by including the line
at the top of our document.
We can then use the align environment with a & sign before the symbol we want aligned to and \\ to signify the end of a line. For example:
If we don't want our equations to be numbers, we can use the align* environment:
The basic less than / more than inequalities are just represented by < and >. We can use \leq for less than or equal to and \geq for greater than or equal to
