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University of Amsterdam

LaTeX course

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This course introduces LaTeX for creating mathematical documents, covering fundamentals, equations, document structure, articles, citations, presentations, TikZ graphics, and posters. It includes exercises in typesetting homework and editing text.

Syllabus

  • Week 1
    • 1. Installing LaTeX
      • TeX Live or MacTeX.
    • 2. Hello world!
      • Typesetting your first document in TeXworks.
    • 3. Basics
      • LaTeX fundamentals
    • 4. Writing mathematical texts
      • Math environment, characters, powers and indices, operators, fractions, roots, dots, matrices, brackets, horizontal whitespace, layout, list of symbols.
    • 5. Writing texts
      • Special characters and accents, paragraphs, non-breaking space, emphasis, lists, verbatim, url and quoting.
    • 6. Errors and warnings
      • Error fixing 101.
    • 7. Homework
      • LaTeXing a homework exercise.
  • Week 2
    • 8. Nederlandse schrijfgids (Dutch writing guide)
      • Nederlandse stijlregels voor wiskunde en LaTeX.
    • 9. Rewriting poor work
      • Exercise in editing
    • 10. Structure
      • Structure of a LaTeX file, document classes, packages, topmatter, groups, commands and environments.
    • 11. Advanced mathematics
      • Gather, align, matrices, text in mathematical expressions, cases, multiline subscripts, references.
  • Week 3
    • 12. Document class uvamath
      • The uvamath document class.
    • 13. Advanced document structure
      • Writing an article. Chapters, sections, paragraphs, theorems, figures, tables, floats, references, bibliography.
  • Week 4
    • 14. LaTeX Beamer
      • Presentations with LaTeX Beamer.
  • Extra
    • 15. Bibliography and citations in LaTeX
      • Making a bibliography.
    • 16. Proper citations in the text
      • Proper citations in the text.
    • 17. BibTex
      • Working with Bibtex.
    • 18. TikZ
      • Creating images with TikZ.
    • 19. Posters
      • Creating a poster in LaTeX.

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