Let's start by acknowledging that there is a very good reason why LaTeX is the standard system for writing papers across all of math and large parts of computer science, physics, statistics, and other technical areas. No one has yet come up with a system that produces better-looking, more estheti...

You should start by reading this page of advice by Henry Cohn: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cohn/Thoughts/advice.html As it says there (among many other useful things), you should prepare a paper using LaTeX. It takes some time and effort to learn LaTeX, but it is much easier ...

I'm no expert on this subject, but the impression that I have comes down to this: your work may be very worthwhile, but it's hard to be taken seriously if you cannot communicate your discoveries. A particular difficulty in getting published in mathematics is that the subject is very technical --...

I think randomly emailing professors is not going to earn any replies. Professors usually have a lot on their plate and they get hundreds of emails each day. Unsolicited emails are usually ignored. One possibility you can explore is trying to establish email contact with a few graduate students...

Sometimes a paper might be rejected just because it doesn't meet the journal's high standards, not because there's anything really wrong with it. However, if a referee makes any substantive criticisms, it's almost always a mistake to submit the paper to another journal without making some revisi...