Math into TeX: A Simple Guide to Typesetting Math Using AMS-LaTex: Neuauflage 1. Halbj.`96/Stand 22.02.95

by George Grätzer

Math Into LaTeX is for the mathematician, physicist, engineer, scientist, or technical typist who needs to quickly learn how to write and typeset articles and books containing mathematical formulas, and requires a thorough reference book on all aspects of LaTeX and the AMS packages (the enhancements to LaTeX by the American Mathematical Society).

Key features of Math Into LaTeX:

* A simple, example-based, visual approach

* A quick introduction (Part I) allowing readers to type their first articles in only a few hours

* Sample articles to demonstrate the basic structure of LaTeX and AMS articles

* Useful appendices containing mathematical and text symbol tables and information on how to convert from older versions

* A new chapter in the fourth edition, "A Visual Introduction to MikTeX," an open source implementation of TeX and LaTeX for Windows operating systems

* Another new chapter describing amsrefs, a simpler method for formatting references that incorporates and replaces BibTeX data

* This edition also integrates a major revision to the amsart document class, along with updated examples

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From reviews of prior editions:

"…meets the needs of mathematicians publishing mathematics…"

—Zentrallblatt

"This book is truly unique in its focus on getting started fast yet keeping it simple. It is indispensable for the beginner and a handy reference for the experienced user."

—Bulletin of the Mathematical Association of India

"I came away with the impression that this book is a very helpful and useful tool for all scientists and engineers."

—Reviews of Astronomical Tools

Genres: Mathematics, Computer Science, Textbooks, Writing, Nonfiction

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jakub · Rating 3 out of 5]

Serves as a great reference, but not really fun to read from beginning to end.

[Alain · Rating 5 out of 5]

required reading for math majors.

[ltcomdata · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite comprehensive review up to 2007 of the evolving LaTeX system. I would have liked better to distinguish all the various packages instead of lumping them all together into "LaTeX", but it is certainly true that most distributions simply install them all, so the difference is for the control freaks who want to know where everything is coming from. I do hope that LaTeX3 finally arrives to organize the new 'core' LaTeX so that we don't have to think in terms of packages any more, nor in terms of different implementations achieving the same effect.

There was no ention of the microtype package in this book... perhaps it was too new when it was written (6 years ago now). There was also very little mention of XeTeX or LuaTeX, both of which projects seem to have some steam behind them. In particular, XeTeX could finally solve the problem that TeX has always had: mainstream fonts. Of course, if one is typesetting math, one might need specialized (and not mainstream) fonts. Still, it would be quite convenient to install fonts in the operating system, and without doing anything further, having those fonts readily available to TeX.

[Darin]

This book is published in the US under the name More Math Into LaTeX, 4th Ed. This is by far the most comprehensive book I have seen for showing how to create mathematical expressions in LaTeX.

[Kiarash · Rating 5 out of 5]

an excellent and comprehensive LaTeX typesetting book.

[Noa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anyone can LaTeX, easy-peasy.