The big O, big theta, and other notations form the family of Bachmann-Landau or asymptotic notations. These notations describe the limiting behavior of a function in mathematics or classify algorithms in computer science according to their complexity / processing time. In this post, I’m not so much interested in the definition of these notations, but rather in … [Read more…]
I have been fascinated with typographic ligatures for quite some time. Ligatures are a class of glyphs composed of two individual letters. There are two classes, historical and stylistic ligatures. Historical ligatures were present since the beginning of scripts, possibly to increase writing speed. Stylistic ligatures occurred more “recently”, with the invention of (analog) printing. … [Read more…]
What’s a good way to retrieve BibTeX entries? This question has been asked on tex.SX, Reddit and other forums. Google Scholar is doing a reasonable, but not always brilliant job in generating BibTeX entries (see my recent post on the topic and the discussion). The main drawbacks include the missing digital object identifier (DOI) or URL linking … [Read more…]
Since Apple introduced alternately colored rows in their lists in Mac OS X, it has become more and more popular to color tables in LaTeX in a similar fashion. Usually, this can be achieved fairly easily, see my post on the topic here. However, when using multirow, things become slightly more complicated. In this post, … [Read more…]
Often universities provide official LaTeX templates for PhD theses. If your university doesn’t, here is a template. The template includes the most common elements of a thesis title page: University’s or institute’s logo Thesis title Author’s name Degree the thesis is submitted for Submission date A few remarks The template may have to … [Read more…]