# trying something crazy

let’s hope i don’t accidentally bring down the whole scienceblogs empire.

\begin{aligned} \nabla \times \vec{\mathbf{B}} -\, \frac1c\, \frac{\partial\vec{\mathbf{E}}}{\partial t} & = \frac{4\pi}{c}\vec{\mathbf{j}} \\ \nabla \cdot \vec{\mathbf{E}} & = 4 \pi \rho \\ \nabla \times \vec{\mathbf{E}}\, +\, \frac1c\, \frac{\partial\vec{\mathbf{B}}}{\partial t} & = \vec{\mathbf{0}} \\ \nabla \cdot \vec{\mathbf{B}} & = 0 \end{aligned}

within text $$\sqrt{3x-1}+(1+x)^2$$

1. #1 skittish borean
March 27, 2010

It works! I see Maxwells Equations!
Might have to try this MathJax out myself…

2. #2 Christina Pikas
March 27, 2010

Apparently people aren’t seeing the equations in Safari or Flock. The mathjax page says it’s compatible with both, and I can see the Mathjax page preview on my iphone, so I’m not sure what’s going on.

3. #3 peter
March 27, 2010

I’m seeing it in safari, 4.0.4, snow leopard… possibly some people haven’t done their updates?

4. #4 peter
March 27, 2010

though interestingly, as I hit post for that comment the re-render of the page initially failed to render the equations, then blanked for a moment and when it returned the equations were rendered.

fwiw, when this post showed up in google reader, the equations also failed to render. but that might just be because of missing punctuation in google’s rehashing of the text…

5. #5 Christina Pikas
March 27, 2010

Excellent! Thanks.

March 27, 2010

I see hyphens. Or maybe they are dashes or underlines.

Firefox 3.0.18 on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu 9.04)

7. #7 Mark
March 27, 2010

Took a good while to render for me in Firefox 3.6.2. Bottom line “Within …” showed up first and i thought that was it but after reading comments scrolled back up and I see far more complex equations above that line.

8. #8 Cameron Neylon
March 28, 2010

Works in Safari on my Mac but failing to render in both Firefox and Chrome…Google Reader also spits the dummy as noted above.

9. #9 Cameron Neylon
March 28, 2010

Nope, I stand corrected, it did render in Firefox, it just took a couple of minutes (literally, a couple of minutes)

10. #10 Christina Pikas
March 28, 2010

The slowness is probably partly due to the fact that I’m referring to the script sitting on the University of Maryland servers instead of locally. In any case, it seems that this isn’t the solution I’d hoped for — yet.

11. #11 Isis the Scientist
March 28, 2010

Worked great for me and was a super quick load!

12. #12 Casey Stark
March 29, 2010

Excellent to see MathJax working on ScienceBlogs! I hope you got my email about the Safari/iPhone font files.

13. #13 Joe
April 11, 2010

In Camino 2.0.1, all that displays are a couple of hyphens.