One of the main topics I intend to blog about is mathematics (and programming and Python and pedagogy).  So, I need some machinery.  It appears that WordPress has some facilities using the WP LaTeX plugin and the MathJax-LaTeX plugin.  Here, I’m hoping to try out the mathjax one.

A simple, beautiful in-line equation is Euler’s identity, \(e^{\pi i}+1=0\).  I surrounded the usual LaTeX mathematics with \ ( and \ ) for inline mode [I need to figure out how to display mathjax meta-symbols when mathjax is running].  Doing that, with no other mathjax-latex plugin content on the page, requires including \ [ mathjax \ ] somewhere to enable the plugin.  Euler’s identity is more commonly written (and shown in display “whole line” or paragraph mode): \[e^{\pi i}=-1\]

So that’s LateX on WordPress (or, correctly \(\LaTeX\)).  Euler, if I remember correctly, had something like 16 children.  He is a patron-saint of modern, father-academic-mathematicians.

Next up, I’ll see if I can follow http://blog.fperez.org/2012/09/blogging-with-ipython-notebook.html and use an ipython notebook, live.