Some quick links AND files for LaTeX AND USING MATHEMATICA.

LATEX TEMPLATES:

• Papers: A tex template is available here: template.tex    template.pdf; you will need the following image yl.eps.
• Slides (Beamer): zipped talk on Benford's law (includes .eps files), zipped talk on sabermetrics (includes .eps files).
• Slides for poster presentations: zipped files for: (1) highly palindromic matrices; (2) Benford's law; (3) Zeckendorf decompositions. Note there are almost surely more files included in these zipped files than you need.
• Video: Introductory lecture to using LaTeX

                Click here for a great summary of the standard mathematical symbols in LaTeX.

WEBLINKS (Free Distributions):

• http://www.tug.org/interest.html#free
• proTeXt: http://www.tug.org/protext/
• TeX Live: http://www.tug.org/texlive/

                See also the webpage here for a free TeX editor.

Another option is WinEDT, though this is not free (you'll also probably have to download MiKTeX as well).

MATHEMATICA:

• Notebook: sample notebook for version 6: MathematicaIntroVer6.nb
• Video: Introductory lecture to using Mathematica
• Mathematica starting tutorial: http://url.wolfram.com/6D6YZu/
• Importing data tutorial: http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/integrateddata/
• Interactive graphics: http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/makingmodels/
• Utilizing models: http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/utilizingmodels/