1. ✦ Distributions
   

2. ✴ MikTeX (for Windows): http://miktex.org
   

3. ✴ MacTeX (for Mac): http://www.tug.org/mactex/
   

4. ✴ TeXLive (for Linux, BSD, etc.): install the version of LaTeX available through your package manager.
   

5. ✦ Link to student edition of Mathematica [for GW students] (instructions from SEAS) https://seascf.seas.gwu.edu/wolfram-mathematica
   

6. ✦ PowerPoint slides from my lecture (2014 version)
   

7. ✦ Sample Documents:
   

8. ✴ Classroom examples (from my version of Math 2572)
   

9. ★ Basic document: README.docx, basic.tex Less basic: README.docx, Class2Lecture.tex, Class2Lecture1.pdf
   

10. ★ Even less basic: Class3Lecture.tex, Class3Lecture1.pdf, picture1.pdf
    

11. ✴ Templates
    

12. ★ Homework: homework.tex, homework.pdf
    

13. ★ Dissertation: dissertation.tex
    

14. ✴ Real Examples
    

15. ★ Research Paper 1: paper1.tex, paper1.pdf, journal1.pdf
    

16. ★ Research Paper 2: paper2.tex, paper2.pdf, Rot.pdf,
    

17. ★ Slide Show: BeamerTemplate.tex, KIAS.pdf, KAIS.zip
    

Comment: For each item on the list, download all the associated files into the same directory (so that LaTeX can find them). Then open the .tex file (in TeXWorks or the like) and run LaTeX (pdfLaTeX version). In some cases a sample .pdf output or README is also included.

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