Re: What Software to Type Math In?

I use Scientific Notebook by MacKichan, which no one has yet mentioned
here. I used it to take notes throughout Calculus without ever having
to resort to pencil and paper. It provides a friendly end for creating
Latex files.

It depends on your purpose though: if you're looking for submit things
for publication, it's probably not ideal, beause it throws in a bunch
of stuff which makes it obvious it was created in Scientific Notebook,
although that could probably be tweaked.

However, if your purpose is to submit a hardcopy paper to someone,
Scientific Notebook, works great, imho; you can print directly from the
product or output the work as HTML. Here are notes I took throughout
Calculus II:
http://www.sundrystuff.net/CalculusII/index.htm
if you want to see the sort of stuff one can do with it.

bijan wrote:
What software should I type a math paper in? I have heard microsoft word has something called equation, but I doubt if it would be adequate. I have also heard about Latex, but I think that is a language and not a software product.

Does anybody have any suggestions or favorite programs?

Thank You,
Bijan

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