7 March 2010 1 Comment

LaTeXSearch: Search for LaTeX code Within Scientific Publications

LaTeXSearch, a free service provided by Springer, affords the scientific community the ability to search for LaTeX code within scientific publications. LaTeXSearch allows users to locate and view the following:

  • Equations containing specific LaTeX code.
  • Equations containing LaTeX code that is similar to another LaTeX string.
  • All equations belonging to a specific DOI.
  • All equations belonging to an article or articles with a particular word or phrase in their title.

Each equation result contains the following information:

  • An entire LaTeX string (which will contain the searched-for code plus any other code that completes that equation).
  • A converted image of the equation.
  • Information about and links to its source.

Most scientific publisher platforms render math in a suitable presentation format (e.g., PDF, GIF images, or MathML), but these formats are optimized for display and not for searching, making the discovery of mathematical formulae online nearly impossible.

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  • Rystsov Denis

    I’ve created a similar site recently – http://uniquation.com/ In some cases it works better than http://latexsearch.com/

    It indexes popular Q&A sites (http://math.stackexchange.com/ and http://mathoverflow.net/) and wikipedia. It supports basic arithmetic expressions, integrals, common operators like (sin, cos …), function calls and low indexes (like f(x)=… or x_n), differential equations, sums and limits.

    So, the current version can be useful for differential equations, Diophantine equations, number theory and math analysis related searches.