Does Math like $f (x) = e^{- x}$ work on askbot?
let's try:
$\mathcal{M}[f] (s) = \int_0^{\infty} x^{s - 1} f (x) dx .$
$\mathcal{M} \left[ \frac{d}{d x} f (x) \right] = - (s - 1) F (s - 1),\quad \mathcal{M} \left[ x^{\mu} f (x) \right] = F (s + \mu) .$
$\sum_{k=0}^{p-1} C_kx^k\equiv \frac{1-(1-4x)^{(p+1)/2}}{2x}-x^{p-1}\quad\bmod (p,x^p).$
Give it a try - post some "answers" and see how it works for you.
edit: here are instructions to enable MathJax.
There is a caveat - if you right-click and choose some setting - django may sign you out. It's due to the bug in python Cookie module or MathJax cookie name. MathJax wants to set up cookie named mjx:menu, but python does not like : in the name. I have found the place in MathJax where that character can be replaced with say -, but rebuilding MathJax is not trivial - not all build scripts are present in the repository.
If the site "kicks you out" this way - delete cookie for askbot.org named as above and re-signin.
This issue in MathJax will hopefully be solved very soon.
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This is a test. Consider a curve $E$ defined by $y^2 = x^3 + ax + b$. Also consider the Fermat curve $x^n + y^n = z^n$.
(Just testing -- pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.)
${{G}_{-}}\cong {{N}_{-}}\times (U(n-1)\times {{\mathbb{R}}^{+}})$. Note the analogy with the Euclidean similarity group $\text{Sim}({{\mathbb{R}}^{2n+1}})={{\mathbb{R}}^{2n+1}}\times (\mathrm{O}(2n+1)\times {{\mathbb{R}}^{+}})$.
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I created a patch for the markdown2.py module that does a better job of isolating MathJax equations from the Markdown processing. Basically, it just replaces all instances of $...$ and $$...$$ patterns from the text, performs the standard markdown processing, and inserts them back in. It works surprisingly well. You can download the context diff from this link (this is just a text file).
The only downside that I can see is that you need to backslash all regular dollar signs that you use in text---but if you run a math-heavy web site like I do, that's no big deal.
Anyway, the Javascript module needs a similar update so that the functionality matches. I've worked on that already, and once I'm satisfied I'll share it here, too. EDIT: OK, I'm satisfied with that patch; you can grab it from this link.
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Asked: 2010-08-29 02:24:58 -0500
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Last updated: Oct 05 '12
I dont see any formulas but only pure LaTex script, or is math not enabled on this installation?
Tuta ( 2011-12-15 18:00:36 -0500 )editTuta, we will fix this tomorrow, some things got out of hand when we migrated some software. Mathjax should work fine. It works on http://ask.sagemath.org running a bit older version of askbot.
Evgeny ( 2011-12-15 18:04:12 -0500 )edit