Miscellaneous

LaTeX Tutorials

LaTeX is a typesetting system commonly used for document preparation, particularly in fields like mathematics, science, and academia. It provides a way to create high-quality documents with complex mathematical equations, technical diagrams, and structured layouts.

For beginners: follow this short tutorial if you are new to LaTeX. It takes 1-2 hours.

Some useful free online tools:

• Overleaf: online LaTeX environment, allowing Regular expression (RegEx) in advanced search.
• Learn and test RegEx
• RegEx Puzzles
• A short list of LaTeX syntaxes of common math symbols
• Homework template (for students)
• Convert hand-sketch to LaTeX: an online WYSIWYG tool that converts math symbols by drawing into LaTeX code
• MathCha: an tool for more sophisticated LaTeX conversions, including large formulas, pictures, tables, etc.
• Local Installation: Tex Live. Check out this explanation of levels of TeX.
• TikZ and PGF: advanced graphing packages for LaTeX
• Online LaTeX table generator
• Beamer: presentation slides via LaTeX
• Poster with LaTeX

ML

• A well illustrated ML algorithms

AI

• ChatGPT
• Midjourney: AI images generator via words
• DALL E 2: another image generator by OpenAI
• Logo maker

Have some time to kill?

• Problem of the Month at Loyola
• Problem of the Month by MAA
• Mathematics Prize Exam at Columbia University
• MIT Integration Bee