Mathematical Formulas in WordPress

This blog uses the Plugin WP QuickLaTeX which gets its $\LaTeX$ -rendering done by QuickLaTeX.

If only a page starts with $[{\sf latexpage}]$ , formulas can be embedded with $\backslash(\ldots\backslash)$ or $\backslash[\ldots\backslash]$ . They have to be written in LaTeX-notation.

So this blog can use formulas like for example:

$\bigwedge_{z\in\Bbb C}\, \sin z = \sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^k z^{2k+1}}{(2k+1)!}=z-\frac{z^3}{6}+\frac{z^5}{120}-\frac{z^7}{5040}+\ldots$

$\bigwedge_{z\in\Bbb C}\, \cos z = \sum_{k=0}^\infty {\frac{(-1)^k z^{2k}}{(2k)!}}=1-\frac{z^2}{2}+\frac{z^4}{24}-\frac{z^6}{720}+\ldots \\$

${\bigwedge_\stackrel{z\in\Bbb C}{\cos z \ne 0}} \tan z = \frac{\sin z}{\cos z} \\$

${\bigwedge_\stackrel{z\in\Bbb C}{\sin z \ne 0}} \cot z = \frac{\cos z}{\sin z} \\$

${\bigwedge_\stackrel{z\in\Bbb C}{\cos z \ne 0}} \sec z = \frac{1}{\cos z} \\$

${\bigwedge_\stackrel{z\in\Bbb C}{\sin z \ne 0}} \csc z = \frac{1}{\sin z} \\ \end{align}$

$\sec(z) = 4\pi \, \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^k(2k+1)} {(2k+1)^2 \pi^2 - 4 z^2 }$

$\csc(z) = \frac{1}{z} - 2z \, \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^k} {k^2\pi^2-z^2} = \sum_{k=-\infty}^\infty \frac{(-1)^k \, z}{z^2-k^2\pi^2}$

So I am making use of this, whenever it seems to make sense, so it can be avoided to write mathematical formulas in some unintelligable ASCII-text.

Why don’t we have that in the development environments of modern programming languages? If a formula is given, it could be written in a much nicer way, at least in the comments. I understand that Donald E. Knuth has introduced the concept of literate programming many decades ago. The source file is a .web, .cweb or .fweb file from which the illiterate source and the TeX-documentation can be produced using weave and tangle or cweave and ctangle or fweave and ftangle. This allows for excellent readable printouts and compilable programs from the common (literate) source file. A little bit of this idea has gone into the idea of javadoc and rubydoc and perldoc, but a conveniant and powerful mechanism for mathematical formulas would still be appreciated.

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