Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX by Herbert Voss

Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX by Herbert Voss

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:

1. Introduction
2. Mathematics inline with normal text.
3. LaTeX's special mathematics mode.
4. Mathematical elements from standard LaTeX
5. Color in math expressions
6. The AMS packages
7. Symbols
8. TeX and math
9. Other special packages
10. Examples
11. 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.

Herbert Voss holds a Doctorate of Engineering at Power Electronics and studied electrical engineering in Hannover and Berlin. He has worked as a high school mathematics, physics, and computer science teacher, as well as a lecturer at Berlin's Free University. He has been significantly involved in the maintenance of the PSTricks set of tools for producing very high quality PostScript graphics within LaTeX for numerous years.