Category Archives: General

Adventures in Mathematical Knitting

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Maya Sharma

Two of my favorite things are math and knitting.  Perhaps surprisingly, there is a fair amount of overlap between them. 

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LaTeX Commands

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Tyler Clark

In light of the popularity of my post entitled Top LaTeX Mistakes, I thought it might be nice to list some helpful commands that make typesetting quicker. If you are not familiar with defining commands, you would define them in your … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Terms

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Tyler Clark

Earlier today, I was talking with someone who brought up “eigenvalues.” I answered their questions; however, I realized that I had no clue where the word comes from or what it really insinuates. In fact, there are many math terms … Continue reading →

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LaTeX online editor

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Melanie Laffin

Have you ever had a need for a LaTeX editor but you are not near a computer that has it installed? Have you ever wished that you could just edit documents in your browser (perhaps because you just got a … Continue reading →

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What to See and Do at the Joint Mathematics Meeting

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Casey Barker

How do you choose which lectures to attend at large conferences?  I was thinking of the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in January when I asked this question.  There are several answers.  AMS has even developed a scheduling tool to help … Continue reading →

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