LaTeX lesson 8 - maths and equations

As what made LaTeX so powerful to me is that it is so mathematically friendly, more entries will be devoted to this topic.

If you’re used to writing maths through emails etc, you’ll find that the most usual notations apply, such as ^ for power, _ for subscript, use curly brackets {} to avoid ambiguity, etc. The only thing that is need getting use to is the symbols. While almost all of the maths symbols can be easily googled, they are not that hard to guess, \alpha for \alpha, \gamma for \gamma, \angle for \angle and \triangle for \triangle… who would guess otherwise?

Now, equations.

\[ x=y=z \] or $$x=y=z$$

will give you the equation in a seperate line, as we would want from time to time.

\begin{equation}
x=y=z
\end{equation}

will give you the equation on a separate line and number it. How cool is that?

\begin{subequations}
w=x\\
y=z
\end{subequations}

will give you multiple lines of equations and number them line by line.

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