@nomen For wordpress.com it's usually $latex x^2 = y $ for example, so I guess the blog may be the same.

It doesn't seem like $x^2$ works. $$f(x) = ...$$ works fine for displaymode.

Anyway, article submitted for review.

@nomen yeah I was saying try "$latex .... $" with the word latex there.

@AlexJBest: okay, thanks, I'll give that a try

Theres a cool program called latex2wp that you might find helpful if you write more posts, it will take an actual latex document and format it for wordpress for you.

I'm actually pretty used to Markdown + Mathjax. I just didn't know about $latex ...$

It takes ages to type too :D

@nomen yes, our wordpress setup doesn't include the super-convenient mathjax setup that mse has. For more about formatting math, you might see this section of the faq

@mixedmath Site's normal now for me - Will's post is showing

@MikeMiller ah, good. I have a theory about it dealing partially with different server caching. In particular, SE runs a server out of New York and a server out of Denver (at least, I think so). I noticed that it was updating later for people accessing from the Western US.

that's just a theory, anyway. It seems to be fine now.

Well, I'm in CA, so there's another data point

@AlexJBest A few of us have tried to make tools to help. It's super annoying to write wordpress-flavored mathjax if you're used to real latex or MSE latex

but none are perfect yet

@mixedmath: just making sure you know, but I posted my draft for review.

@nomen yes, I was just looking at that. You were very fast, and it seems well-formatted.

@mixedmath: i have a lot of experience with latex. :)

I also like that it's expanded from what appeared on the other (your?) blog

@nomen: ah, well, each flavor of wordpress-latex is a bit different. I have my own blog with a much more honest-to-real-latex mathjax setup, and I find it time consuming when I first adapt to others

Do you plan on contributing regularly?

i'm not sure. i write for that other blog first, and i think that if i think of appropriate topics for here, i'd be happy to expand and post

and yes, the other blog is mine :)

@nomen yes, that will be a bit similar to how some of my upcoming posts will be like. Some things I write for my students, or for myself - and these won't make it here. But the rest, maybe.

A lot of what I write about might be too focused on insurance for this blog. But maybe I can expand poissonlabs.com/blog/linearity-of-expectation into an article for next week.

so that you know what to expect, your post is one of three currently pending. These will be looked over by someone (and then by two mods by external mandate). You should expect no problems, just letting you know. You might be more interested in when.

we're all volunteers here, i gotcha :)

@mixedmath What are the other two on?

@MikeMiller Euler's pentagonal theorem, and matching theory

Exciting!

they're both pretty good too - we're hitting a good cross section so far

I've decided not to write the one article I was thinking about, because I don't think I can exposit it in a nice way - but once I stumble upon something else I like I'll definitely consider that instead :)

@mixedmath kind of weird to ask but, am I an editor?

No I'm not. Just realized.

hi

Is it possible to take posts from ones own blog such as a post on automorphic numbers which I had written for this blog?

@mixedmath I just saw the call for contributing content to the blog and the call for volunteer community editors. Please count me in for both.

A topic I can write about is "Metric Models For Topology", based on arxiv.org/abs/1311.4940 (to appear in Algebra Universalis). Basically, every topological space is metrizable if metrizable is interpreted as "metric space where the metric takes values in a value quantale rather than the non-negative real numbers". The result is a category of metric spaces which is equivalent to the category of topological spaces, thus providing a metric model for topology.

@mixedmath I've looked over the Pentagonal Theorem post, and have marked it as pending. It's ready to go as soon as it gets looked over by a mod.

just had some trickiness there also. typed in comment as anon with name/site & then it says on small error page to enter name/ site. ?!? then tried again with "http://" in front of the website & it worked the 2nd time. maybe that is the glitch?

suggestion to editor(s) re layout: some blogs are very long & even a long list of shorter ones is somewhat hard to skim. suggest using the wordpress "more" tag feature to allow something like "ledes". also wordpress allows limiting # of posts per page, suggest turning on that feature to 5-7 or something like that.

@mixedmath I will give a proof of the Cayley Hamilton theorem and Nakayama's lemma that seems more natural to me than the one in Attiyah & Macdonald

@mixedmath is this OK ?

@leo ok, let's give this a shot. You have been granted editorial powers. Let's see how things go for the next while (like a month), and we'll see how things go.

one of the first things you might notice is that you can see more. Most importantly, you should see two posts "pending" and one "draft" - these are the posts that are in the process

@leo two other bits: don't publish anything on your own, and you should also now have access to the blog editorial room, which we have used exactly twice so far (I think) - but which may or not be useful

@Amr I think that sounds good!

@IttayWeiss In general, I think everyone would be better off with clean exposition of complicated ideas.

so I'm in for it. I've noticed you haven't attempted to sign in to the blog yet. Go to math.blogoverflow.com/wp-admin and we can get you set up as (1) a contributor and (2) as a trial editor - to see how this goes

@Amr this goes for you too: once you try to sign in at math.blogoverflow.com/wp-admin, we can get you writer-privileges