Publisher's Synopsis
The LaTeX typesetting system is free, and runs on just about any operating system. It produces book-quality output, and is the best system in the world for typesetting mathematics.
This book shows you:
- How to typeset matehmatics beautifully, whether a simple equation or a complex mathematical treatise.
- How the sepcial American Mathematical Society (AMS) packages help you typeset your math.
- A complete list of math symbols, for easy reference.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Mathematics inline with normal text.
- LaTeX's special mathematics mode.
- Mathematical elements from standard LaTeX
- Color in math expressions
- The AMS packages
- Symbols
- TeX and math
- Other special packages
- Examples
- Fonts and math
This book will appeal to anybody using math in documents: professionals as well as college staff and students, in engineering economics, the sciences, statistics, computer science, and of course mathematics.
