{"id":26,"date":"2013-09-13T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-02-12T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:42:44","slug":"first-math-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/first-math-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Math Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main topics I intend to blog about is mathematics (and programming and Python and pedagogy). \u00a0So, I need some machinery. \u00a0It appears that WordPress has some facilities using the WP LaTeX plugin and the MathJax-LaTeX plugin. \u00a0Here, I&#8217;m hoping to try out the mathjax one.<\/p>\n\n<p>A simple, beautiful in-line equation is Euler&#8217;s identity, \\(e^{\\pi i}+1=0\\). \u00a0I 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]. \u00a0Doing that, with no other mathjax-latex plugin content on the page, requires including \\ [ mathjax \\ ] somewhere to enable the plugin. \u00a0Euler&#8217;s identity is more commonly written (and shown in display &#8220;whole line&#8221; or paragraph mode): \\[e^{\\pi i}=-1\\]<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s LateX on WordPress (or, correctly \\(\\LaTeX\\)). \u00a0Euler, if I remember correctly, had something like 16 children. \u00a0He is a patron-saint of modern, father-academic-mathematicians.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, I&#8217;ll see if I can follow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fperez.org\/2012\/09\/blogging-with-ipython-notebook.html\">http:\/\/blog.fperez.org\/2012\/09\/blogging-with-ipython-notebook.html<\/a>\u00a0and use an ipython notebook, live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main topics I intend to blog about is mathematics (and programming and Python and pedagogy). \u00a0So, I need some machinery. \u00a0It appears that WordPress has some facilities using the WP LaTeX plugin and the MathJax-LaTeX plugin. \u00a0Here, I&#8217;m hoping to try out the mathjax one. A simple, beautiful in-line equation is Euler&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsfenner.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}