An example of a paper from the pre-LaTeX era (heck pre-TeX): John Nash's dissertation https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/Non-

An example of a paper from the pre-LaTeX era (heck pre-TeX): John Nash's dissertation https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/defa... My points of interest: - Greek letters aren't even available! Or even sub/super-scripts! And I thought I had it hard in highschool, writing up on math with MS Word. - Parentheses are available (PDF p. 22) but it escapes me why he uses brackets for in-text annotation where today we'd use parentheses (as I am doing right now). And it seems his typewriter doesn't even have brackets available so he hand-writes it (PDF p. 26) - In PDF page 10, there's a couple of lines (P_{i\alpha}(s*)...) where the space left for the math expressions are too generous. I wonder how that came to be especially as for most of the document the typesetting is pretty tight. - I am very amused at the dedication to typewrite as much as possible. For instance, there will be short lines here and there to the effect of "Let <quantification> for <domain condition>" and the words "Let" and "for" will be typewritten! I would've handwritten that whole line by myself.