AMS-LaTeX is a collection of
LaTeX document classes and packages developed for the
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
(AMS). Its additions to LaTeX include the typesetting of multi-line and other mathematical statements, document classes, and
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s containing numerous mathematical symbols.
It has largely superseded the plain
TeX
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macro package AMS-TeX. AMS-TeX was originally written by
Michael Spivak
Michael David Spivak (25 May 19401 October 2020)Biographical sketch in Notices of the AMS', Vol. 32, 1985, p. 576. was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or- ...
, and was used by the AMS from 1983 to 1985.
MathJax
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supports AMS-LaTeX through extensions.
The following code of the LaTeX2e produces the AMS-LaTeX logo:
%%% -- AMS-LaTeX_logo.tex -------
\documentclass
\usepackage
\begin
\AmS-\LaTeX
\end
The package has a suite of facilities to format multi-line equations. For example, the following code,
\begin
y &= (x+1)^2 \\
&= x^2+2x+1
\end
causes the equals signs in the two lines to be aligned with one another, like this:
:
AMS-LaTeX also includes many flexible commands for formatting and numbering theorems, lemmas, etc. For example, one may use the environment
\begin ythagorasSuppose $a\leq b\leq c$ are the side-lengths of a right triangle.\\ Then $a^2+b^2=c^2$.\end
\begin. . . \end
to generate
Theorem (''Pythagoras'') ''Suppose'' ''are the side-lengths of a right triangle. ''
''Then'' .
Proof. . . □
See also
*
List of TeX extensions
*
AMSRefs
*
Tombstone (typography)
References
External links
AMS TeX ResourcesTeX FAQ on AMS-TeX
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