---
title: "How to display mathematical equations in Jupyter Notebook"
description: "LaTeX support in Jupyter Notebook"
author: "Bartosz Mikulski"
author_bio: "Principal AI Engineer & MLOps Architect. I bridge the gap between \"it works in a notebook\" and \"it works for 200 million users.\""
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author_github: https://github.com/mikulskibartosz
canonical_url: https://mikulskibartosz.name/how-to-display-mathematical-equations-in-jupyter-notebook
---

Did you know that Jupyter Notebook has built-in LaTeX support? I didn’t.

When you change the format of a cell to “Markdown,” you can write not only in the markdown syntax, which is obvious ;) but you can also include LaTeX code to generate formulas:

```
\begin{align*}
(a+b)^2 = a^2+2ab+b^2
\end{align*}
```

After pressing ENTER, this gets automatically converted to:

![Equation](/images/2019-02-27-how-to-display-mathematical-equations-in-jupyter-notebook/equation.png)

Awesome! ;)