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Current CS undergrad: LaTeX is mandatory or strongly encouraged (slight grade penalty for not using it) in pretty much every undergrad math class post-Calculus,
by superuser2 12y ago
Current CS undergrad: LaTeX is mandatory or strongly encouraged (slight grade penalty for not using it) in pretty much every undergrad math class post-Calculus, as well as CS classes like Discrete Math, Algorithms, Complexity Theory, etc.
It also turns out great-looking papers for professors who are okay with PDF and count words rather than pages (which is IMO the way to do it.) 100% of my academic output is plain text under version control; some of it is code, some of it is LaTeX.
It may not be used much outside of academia but everyone in anything remotely quantitative at my school (Math, Economics, Statistics, Public Policy and other stats-dependent fields, etc) will learn it at some point.