The mdframed package implements a box environment that automatically breaks boxes across multiple pages. Moreover, it allows flexible box designs. An example from the documentation that I particularly like is titled: “Theorem with separate header and the help of TikZ (complex)”. In this article, I use the example to create environments for theorems, lemmas, and … [Read more…]
The number of symbols that can be produced with TeX/LaTeX and the packages providing them is quite impressive. Often, I know the command by heart or a quick check on Google is sufficient to produce a specific symbol. However, it might happen that I don’t know the name of the symbol nor how to describe … [Read more…]
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…]
There are a number of predefined commands to add whitespace in LaTeX math mode. These are summarized in the list below. Example usage of medium space \: Here, we use whitespace to separate symbols from regular text. Whitespace commands are available by default. Additional packages are necessary to produce natural number symbol and \text … [Read more…]
This post summarizes symbols used in complex number theory. The set of complex numbers See here for a complete list of set symbols. Complex number notation Nothing unexpected here, the standard i or sometimes j is used. Real part Imaginary part