Chapter 10. Advanced Mathematics

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Quick-start for beginners
  • Fine-tuning a formula
  • Automatic line-breaking in equations
  • Highlighting in a formula
  • Writing theorems and definitions
  • Drawing a commutative diagram
  • Plotting functions in two dimensions
  • Plotting in three dimensions
  • Drawing geometry pictures
  • Doing calculations

Introduction

One of the classic strong points of LaTeX is its excellent quality in typesetting formulas. That's why LaTeX is the most used writing software in mathematics. Other sciences benefit from it as well when it comes to formulas.

This chapter provides selected recipes for common tasks. It's expected that readers already know the basics of writing math but to also support beginners we will start ...

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