[math]LaTeX[/math] is a program that allows you to write math on the computer, and now I have [math]LaTeX[/math] software for my blog!

Basically, what it does is it turns its own programming language into an image that’s usable anywhere.
For example, “x = 6″ generates [math]x = 6[/math].
“E = mc^2″ becomes [math]E = mc^2[/math].

But eventually it gets complicated.

Say you want to create [math]m = \frac{m_0}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}[/math].
You have to know to type “m = \frac{m_0}{\sqrt{1-\frac{v^2}{c^2}}}”.

I thought about typing out a guide for using [math]LaTeX[/math], and then I thought it would just be re-inventing the wheel. There are a lot of guides for using [math]LaTeX[/math] out there.

But then I found out that all those guides are so dense and barely understandable. And most of them are about [math]LaTeX[/math] in it’s entirety (it’s a typesetting program in general) and not about it’s individual math features.

Unfortunately, though, this means I am actually having trouble understanding it fully, but if I ever do understand it to the point where I can produce a guide, I may. It will probably be boring, though.

For now, he are links to a few complicated resources that I’m still just beginning to understand:

• Latex @ University of Cambridge
• Latex @ Harvard Math
• A Guide to Latex
• Table of Latex Math Commands
• The “Short Math Guide for Latex”

When you’re done, you can play around with it here at my Latex generator.

Chances are you weren’t planning on using [math]LaTeX[/math] anyway. But I can use it for my Math section.

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