Overview
During my time at UW, I took a course called AMATH 482, which required us to submit lengthy, formal papers using LaTeX. One of my challenges was writing complex equations like the Black-Scholes equation in LaTeX:
C(S,t) = S N\left(\frac{\ln\left(\frac{S}{K}\right) + \left(r + \frac{\sigma^2}{2}\right)(T - t)}{\sigma \sqrt{T - t}}\right) - K e^{-r(T - t)} N\left(\frac{\ln\left(\frac{S}{K}\right) + \left(r + \frac{\sigma^2}{2}\right)(T - t)}{\sigma \sqrt{T - t}} - \sigma \sqrt{T - t}\right)
It was time-consuming and frustrating to input everything manually, and I thought how much faster it would be if I could simply handwrite the equations and convert them into LaTeX instantly.
And that’s when the idea for TransLateX was born.
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