# Category Archives for Mathematics

## Matheplanet Award

These days, the voting phase of the Matheplanet Member Award ended. Among the 15 categories, there’s an award for the best LaTeX advisor.

27. January 2015 by stefan

## Periodically, more or less

Recently I got my hands on the sine function, again. It’s the classic example for a periodic function. Everybody knows that horizontal wave in the cartesian coordinate system. Starting with a polar plot of a complex sine function in two … Continue reading

01. August 2014 by stefan

## Dynamic systems, bifurcations, procedural worlds

I’m using pgfplots a lot, so I will share some examples today. Here, I benefit from these features of pgfplots, going beyond base TikZ: Simple plotting with 3d coordinates and axonometric projection Presentation of required coordinate axes Using color gradients … Continue reading

08. July 2014 by stefan

## Iterated fractals

I recently dealt with  Iterated function systems , in short IFS. Here we got repeated transformations: the space will be mapped onto itself. There can be different map specifications. We do this an infinite number of times and take a … Continue reading

07. July 2014 by stefan

## Springer recommends eqnarray

I just read on LaTeX-Community.org, that the publisher Springer still recommends to use eqnarray. I could not believe that, so I went to Book Manuscript Guidelines, choose Manuscript Preparation in LaTeX and downloaded svmult.zip, which contains the Springer class for … Continue reading

06. April 2012 by stefan

## Decorate a TikZ path

Redfiloux asked on TeX.SX:  How to decorate a \path?  My question is about drawing a “commutative-type diagram” in mathematics. I would like to integrate an arrow of the type \rightsquigarrow, which is described how to be obtained here: Squiggly arrows … Continue reading

05. November 2011 by stefan

## Closed root symbols

In LaTeX/Mathematics, Wikipedia writes: Some people prefer writing the square root “closing” it over its content. This method arguably makes it more clear just what is in the scope of the root sign. It shows a solution defining \sqrt in … Continue reading

02. October 2011 by stefan

## Matrix multiplication with LaTeX

Alexx Hardt asked on TeX.SX:  How can I draw a diagram for matrix multiplication with LaTeX?  I’m trying to make a PDF manual for matrix multiplication with LaTeX. I’d like to generate a graphic similar to this one (from Wikipedia/Matrix … Continue reading

18. April 2011 by stefan

## LaTeX-Award on Matheplanet.com

Today Matheplanet.com has celebrated its annual awards for the 8th time. Members of the forum were honored for their contributions during the last year, 260 members have voted this time. There were many categories, from mathematics and physics to LaTeX … Continue reading

25. January 2010 by stefan
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## Inline math: $…$ vs. (…)

l2tabu, a text informing about obsolete packages and commands, recommends to replace $$…$$ by [...], but it doesn’t say a word about the difference between $…$ and (…). “Mathmode” by H. Voss does tell something, but it says in v2.40: … Continue reading

03. April 2009 by stefan