Jekyll2026-08-18T14:34:41+00:00https://azhirmahmood.com/feed.xmlAzhir MahmoodAzhir's personal site and technical blog — notes on math, code, and whatever else is worth writing down properly.Azhir MahmoodHello, world — and a little LaTeX2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:002026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00https://azhirmahmood.com/2026/08/17/hello-worldThis is the first post. It’s here mostly to prove the pipeline works end to end: Markdown in, a properly typeset page out — LaTeX included.

Inline math

You can write inline math like $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$ right in a sentence, and it renders in place, at reading size, without breaking the line height.

Display math

For anything that deserves its own line, use display math:

\[\zeta(s) = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^s}, \qquad \operatorname{Re}(s) > 1\]

Multi-line derivations work too, using aligned:

\[\begin{aligned} \nabla \times \mathbf{E} &= -\frac{\partial \mathbf{B}}{\partial t} \\ \nabla \times \mathbf{B} &= \mu_0 \mathbf{J} + \mu_0 \varepsilon_0 \frac{\partial \mathbf{E}}{\partial t} \end{aligned}\]

Code, too

Since a lot of what’s worth writing down is code, not just math:

def zeta_partial(s, n_terms=10_000):
    return sum(1 / n**s for n in range(1, n_terms + 1))

A blockquote, for asides, caveats, or things I want to walk back later.

That’s the whole toolkit: headings, inline and display LaTeX, code blocks, and blockquotes. Delete this post once you’ve got a real first entry.

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