someone needs to write mathematical equations in his or her thesis. Which software he or she can prefer. Thanks in advance!
Dear Debottam Bhunia,
For me, I prefer MathType is a good choice. MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows. Also, you have a lot of options that help you to type your equations easily.
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/
Best Regards
Musab Tr
Dear Debottam Bhunia,
For me, I prefer MathType is a good choice. MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows. Also, you have a lot of options that help you to type your equations easily.
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/
Best Regards
Musab Tr
LaTeX is also a viable solution depending what you are writing for and requirements that those bodies have.
anyone please provide me the link where I can download La TeX. Thanks in advance!
Hello Debottam,
I think this link can help you:
http://www.howtotex.com/howto/installing-latex-on-windows/
This is a very good question with many possible answers. In addition to the helpful answers already given, there is a bit more to add.
So far, those who have responded to this question either mention MathType for Word documents or LaTex. The following paper gives a comparison between Word and LaTeX users:
study https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jelica_Nejasmic/publication/269762491_An_Efficiency_Comparison_of_Document_Preparation_Systems_Used_in_Academic_Research_and_Development/links/5506dd6c0cf2d7a2812248c5.pdf
Unfortunately, this efficiency study focuses on the time required by Word vs. LaTeX rather than on the quality and versativity of the two very different approaches to writing equations. Quicker does not always mean better.
My own experience with MathType vs. LaTeX is that I always find that there is more precision, flexibility and scope using LaTeX rather than MathType. The problem with MathType is that it has very limited options needed for writing equations.
Here is a collection of ground-floor reports on writing Math in LaTeX:
http://www.docscrewbanks.com/pdf/font-for-mathematical-equations
Article An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Use...
In mathematics almost everybody uses LaTeX. One needs some time to learn how it works, but after that one really enjoys its flexibility with formatting, writing equations, lists, cross-references etc. A big advantage comparing with Word is that it does only what you ask to do, without annoying additional services like uncontrollable changes of formats when you copy something, or starting enumeration when it likes to, resizing of formulas when you open them, and so on.
To work with LaTeX I prefer MikTeX. It is a free software, which can be downloaded here:
https://miktex.org/
Dear,
for mathematical reports and theses, LaTeX is the number one for almost all Mathematicians and Physicists, but ! if you're not able to use LaTeX for any reason, you can check SWP (Scientific Work Place) which is a simulator for LaTeX codes, and it's used to be easy to write documents in mathematics and Physics.
https://www.mackichan.com/index.html?products/swp.html~mainFrame
As regards efficiency when using LaTeX, one should either use a texteditor that allows to produce template-type snippets for equations, equation arrays, arrays and tables with a simple key combination, or use one of several GUI interfaces that allow to select such snippets from pulldown menus. In this way, the chances for typos are minimized, and one can concentrate on the content. There is also some web-based tools for collaboration on LaTeX documents, e.g. overleaf. Two further important pros of LaTeX are bibtex, a free and versatile addon that allows you to store and format your literature references, and the possibility to use any revision versioning tool for your work easily since LaTeX and bibtex files are simple text files. Also, for larger documents, I recommend to use the possibilities of modular typesetting the chapters, say, one per one. In this way, the generation of pdf files for corrections is much faster.
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