## Temporary Move

While commenting issues are being resolved at our old premises, we have moved here.

dollar sign latex your stuff dollar sign.

So dollar sign latex e^{-\frac{(x – \mu)^2}{2 \sigma^2}} dollar sign yields

$e^{-\frac{(x - \mu)^2}{2 \sigma^2}}$.

### 39 Responses to “Temporary Move”

1. dcorfield Says:

Let’s see if latex works.

$\sum_{i = 0}^{\infty} i^i$

2. Artem Says:

Ouph… Where is RSS feed? Will you set it up?

Hope the original location goes back to normal soon… If you wish to make over here look a bit more over there, you might want to add the same familiar header image (and remove the text title), see this http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/custom-header-image/

$a = b$

5. tomleinster Says:

Testing: $e^{\pi i} \dashv \prod_{i = 1}^n \to X$

6. Tom Leinster Says:

Testing displayed formulas:
$$latex \lim_\to \sum_{i = 1} n$$

7. johncarlosbaez Says:

Bummer, eh? Let me try:

$$e^{e + e} = e^e e^e$$

8. Tom Leinster Says:

OK, that doesn’t work. Can we do displayed formulas?

Let’s try another way. I don’t think this will work either.
$latex x = y$

9. johncarlosbaez Says:

Okay, Tom: I put the “latex” right after the dollar sign, but it didn’t understand the double dollar sign so there are some extra dollars hanging on to the ends there…

$e^3 = e e e$

10. johncarlosbaez Says:

$latex e^3 = e e e$

11. Tom Leinster Says:

Other mathematical bloggers (Tao, Gowers, Secret Blogging) must have figured out this basic stuff long ago.

12. johncarlosbaez Says:

Bummer!

Did someone install any of these various things for latex in WordPress yet?

Like David?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/equations

13. Tom Leinster Says:

Well, what if we just put a formula in a paragraph by itself? Does it default to display style?

E.g. here’s a sum inside text: $\sum_1^n x_i$. Here it is in a paragraph by itself:

$\sum_1^n x_i$

Any difference?

14. Tom Leinster Says:

There’s a basic FAQ on Latex in WordPress here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/

15. Urs Schreiber Says:

On this page here is a description for how to get indented inline math in WordPress LaTeX. Seems one needs to install another plugin for that, called Ultimate $\LaTeX$. The link is given there.

Urs, there’s a difference between a ready-made blog at wordpress.com (such as your new one), and a blog using the software developped by wordpress.org The plugin you mention is for folks who use the software on their own server.

16. Tom Leinster Says:

OK, let’s try a displayed equation, in display style, using the code at the [page](http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/including-equations-in-comments/) Chris Schommer-Pries linked to:

$latex\ \ \ \sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{n^2} = \lim_{\varepsilon\to 0} \left( \frac{\pi^2}{6} + \varepsilon \right)$

How’s that?

17. Tom Leinster Says:

Disastrous! The link failed too. Let’s try again:

$latex\ \ \ \sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{n^2} = \lim_{\varepsilon\to 0} \left( \frac{\pi^2}{6} + \varepsilon \right)$

Any better?

18. Tom Leinster Says:

OK, here’s something simpler:

$latex\displaystyle{\sum_1^n x^2}$

OK?

19. Tom Leinster Says:

Now I’m baffled. $x$. $latex\displaystyle x$. $latex\displaystyle{x}$. $latex\sum_1^n i^2$. $latex\displaystyle{\sum_1^n i^2}$.

20. Tom Leinster Says:

One more, and I’ll stop clogging up the comments thread. (But I’ll leave these experimental comments up in case anyone can see what’s wrong.)

$latex\sum_{i=1}^{n} i^2$.

$latex\displaystyle{\sum_{i=1}^{n} i^2}$.

you need a space after the “latex”.

But as John noticed above, this “displaystyle”-command will not center the formula

22. Chris Schommer-Pries Says:

Let me try…

$\displaystyle{ \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} 1/n = \infty}$

23. Tom Leinster Says:

Ah, thanks Urs. I usually put more spaces in my Latex than everyone else, but spaces can sometimes cause software to become confused, so I tried without. My mistake.

OK, so I’ll try one more after all.

$\sum_1^n i^2$.

$\displaystyle{\sum_1^n i^2}$.

$\displaystyle{\ \ \ \sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{n^2} = \lim_{\varepsilon\to 0} \left( \frac{\pi^2}{6} + \varepsilon \right)}$

24. David Speyer Says:

My usual solution to the centering problem, which I will admit is painfully verbose, is

$\displaystyle{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}}$

That is to say,
< p style=”text-align:center;” > $latex \displaystyle{\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}}$ < /p >

25. David Speyer Says:

But apparently that isn’t working here either.

26. John Baez Says:

Now my name is John Baez instead of “johncarlosbaez”.

David and Simon: I suggest that you go to “My Account”, then “Edit Profile”, then change your “Display Name Publicly As” to your actual name.

27. Urs Schreiber Says:

I think it is good that math doesn’t come out perfect here. It should serve to remind you that if you go through the trouble of exposing a nontrivial piece of math discussion, it is a waste to do so just in a blog comment. You should do it on the nLab instead and point people there. 😉

28. Mike Stay Says:

$\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} z^n = \frac{1}{1-z}$

29. CK Says:

$x^2+2x+1=\sum_{i=1}^10$

30. Tom Leinster Says:

CK: you have to put the word “latex”, followed by a space, immediately after the first dollar sign.

31. خرید کریو Says:

thank you