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# Quick-start for beginners

LaTeX provides a special syntax for math expressions. Furthermore, it has to be declared what is math but not text to get properly printed. Let's see how to write math!

## How to do it...

We will practice math basics now. Let's write a document:

\documentclass{article}
2. Start the document:
\begin{document}
3. Let's have an unnumbered section for our text:
\section*{The golden ratio}
4. Write a statement containing math. Enclose each math formula within parentheses. As usual for LaTeX commands, write a backslash before each parenthesis.
The symbol for the golden ratio is the Greek
letter $$\varphi$$. Its value is the positive
solution of $$x^2 - x - 1 = 0$$.
5. Continue the text; this time, math shall ...

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