A second vote for Lyx - I worked through my OU maths degree using it and barely ever did my working out using pencil and paper. Instead, I'd write up the course

A second vote for Lyx - I worked through my OU maths degree using it and barely ever did my working out using pencil and paper. Instead, I'd write up the coursework "live". You do certainly need to memorize the shortcuts and access keys for your notation, but then I can very quickly write out mathematics that I can still read a week later. My brother[1] on the other hand does everything by hand. I even saw 7 pages of matrices & wave functions all in biro which was apparently "one equation" - I think even he thought that was a bit too much though and he finally started doing things in Mathematica. [1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=9AbVcBoAAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=9AbVcBoAAAAJ&hl=...