Writing mathematics with LaTeX:
All of the assignments you submit in this course will have to be written
using the LaTeX typesetting system. This means that you will
need to spend some time
learning how to use this system. While this might seem like an unnecessary
burden in a course that will already require a great deal of your time,
you will find that using LaTeX:
- forces you to organize your thoughts and write more clearly
- often reveals unclear thinking
- produces an easily readable document
- allows you to submit assignments using the Moodle system
- allows easy editing.
You will find all of the resources needed to create a mathematics
document using an on LaTeX system in this section. Here are a few
sites that can be used to create LaTeX documents:
- Overleaf merged with a service called Sharelatex which we used last year
- Verbosus is also free
- Cocalc is a computional system of Sage
that also provides LaTeX authoring on line.
- You may also wish to download latex onto your own computer
from one of
the LaTeX project or
or MiKTeX (Windows) or
Mac TeX (Mac)...and there are others.
I suggest starting with
Overleaf.
I just tried it out and I was up and running on their service
within minutes.
I will provide a basic template (below) and files that you can look at in order
to help you get started. However there are
many on-line resources for learning the LaTeX basics: