LaTeX:

A formatting language for Mathematical documents

LaTeX is a formatting language for documents with lots of math notation in them.

It is the work of two mathmetician/computer scientists:

• Donald Knuth, who write TeX
• Leslie Lamport, to develope LaTeX on top of TeX.

Pronounciation

It is pronounced “lay tek” because

• TeX is “tau epsilon chi”, as in “technology”
• TeX is not “Tex” as in “Texas”

Examples

What you write	What you get
\frac{1}{n}	$$ \frac{1}{n}