...also known as NABLA

[gfish]

I think this might be the most visually perfect mathematical expression:



Aaah, LaTeX. It's been too long. I'll never stop being amazed at just how good everything looks in it.

Comments

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

I read that as NAMBLA.
Eep!

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I feel normalized by this.

Also: I do NOT look good in Latex.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Uh, no. That would be:

[callmem.livejournal.com]

Visually perfect. Unfortunately named.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Mmm, del.

At some point, I realized that LaTeX looked so good, because my definition of "good" was based on Big Important Papers that used LaTeX. That made me happy. :)

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Hmm... every time I see a book set in Computer Modern, it's crap.

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Huh, is that a... gradient? [wikis] Yeah, it is. It's nice to think all my undergrad math hasn't leaked away; we didn't use the term "nabla" for that notation.

[tmfkan64.livejournal.com]

That's a gradient. But you can make a divergence, curl, or Laplacian with the same symbol!

[craigp.livejournal.com]

naw, the del needs to be squared, and it should be a full (poisson) equation.

poisson and green rule!!

but i still think the bestest equation is

e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0

Die! Die! Die, sister-fucking rat bastard!

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

LaTeX is one of the few pieces of software that makes me froth at the mouth! Even when I was using it fifteen years ago there were better alternatives, albeit for a steep price. Tell me you're not using it voluntarily.

Re: Die! Die! Die, sister-fucking rat bastard!

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Of course I am. No one is going to take technical papers typeset in anything else seriously.

Re: Die! Die! Die, sister-fucking rat bastard!

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Have you read a conference proceedings or other collection of papers from within the last 8 years? Everyone switched to Word a long time ago. There are a few LaTeX holdouts and a few new people coming to use it, but there are also people who learn C in this day and age and think it's OG to write it K&R. Some of them even like to pretend void doesn't exist!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, LaTeX indeedy. You can even do music with it.