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What packages do people load by default in LaTeX?
As subject. What are the most popular LaTeX packages?
For papers on the arXiv (maths, physics and computer science mostly) there's a list of packages sorted by frequency of use.
The top twenty packages are:
article
graphicx
amssymb
amsmath
revtex
revtex4
epsfig
amsfonts
bm
latexsym
amsart
dcolumn
amsthm
graphics
aastex
amscd
epsf
color
aa
times