<p>for those of you who have entered math projects into science competitions, did you type it using latex, word, or something else?</p>
<p>Latex. No doubt.</p>
<p>LaTeX is pretty essential if you’ve gotta type a lot of equations.</p>
<p>Learn it now or forever hold your peace.</p>
<p>Is LaTeX an essential skill for any major other than pure math majors?</p>
<p>it’s the de facto standard for almost <em>all</em> scientific writing. even some humanities fields (e.g. linguistics) use it.</p>
<p>this is because latex is pretty much the bomb.</p>
<p>TeX looks awesome! I love the font…ahahaha. </p>
<p>Word is way too hassling if you gotta deal with all of the MathType or Microsoft Equation Editor…I’ve noticed my particular version of Word tends to crash a lot when Equation Editor is open. So save yourself some grief and learn LaTeX =p</p>
<p>I started using it earlier this year for some mathy stuff, and ended up doing lal my classes work w/ it.</p>
<p>One note be warned: for the science competitions (Siemens/Intel STS), unless you are already a real TeX veteran, I would suggest word. LaTeX can get really annoying when you just want to crank out really complicated formatting really fast. So if you are going to write your paper in LaTeX, make sure that you have enough time to redo it all in word. Idk about most people, but my partner and I did it the month before it was due, and we definetely did not have any time to spare to learn LaTeX or any intricacies at the time. Learn it after the competitions.</p>
<p>If you’re a math project person, you really better know how to do LaTeX or people are going to start wondering.</p>
<p>LaTeX and Mathematica are excellent skills for anyone intending to go into math/CS…</p>
<p>DS does everything in LaTeX now. His physics teacher last year was quite jealous (in a good way)!</p>
<p>i tend to use latex for shorter documents (i.e. homework). my computer is a bit slow (and latex slows down the more i write), so i was wondering if it would be “taboo” to use word for a math project, word certainly easier to use for longer documents and formatting.</p>
<p>I used LaTeX for my graph theory homework
until I started doing it five minutes before class started.
that was when I started using messy scribbles on looseleaf paper.</p>
<p>“Is LaTeX an essential skill for any major other than pure math majors?”</p>
<p>philosophy</p>