scienceislove:

fuckyeahmath:

If you haven’t been introduced to my project mathKeys yet, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Here’s the run-down: imagine being able to use certain Greek letters (like α, β, π, λ, δ, μ, σ) and certain math symbols (like ∑, ∏, ∂, ∫, ×) just as you would use !, #, $, %, and @.

Working with a Word document but don’t want to go through the pain of adding a symbol? No problem!

Taking notes on your laptop (eco-friendly ftw) or writing an email to a professor or a colleague and need to use that beautiful infinity? Alt + Ctrl + 8 = ∞

It’s Windows only for now (sorry, Mac users) but I plan on making it available for Mac and Linux (New Ubuntu released, did you know?) later on. Did I mention it’s totally free and all the instructions for set-up and usage are completely detailed at its homepage?

With love,
Live long and prosper,
Mikhail “themoderngeek” Popov

A note for OS X users.

You can access some symbols using opt-letter. Some examples are:

∑, π, ∆,˚, Ω, ≈, √, ∫, µ, ≤, ≥, ÷, ∞, ≠, ±

Most of these are rather sensibly placed eg ÷ is opt-/ and ≤ is opt-,. Some are odder eg ∑ is opt-w. Have a play.