In my view, any document with a substantial amount of mathematics should load the packages from AMS-TeX. Hence, most of my document's preambles contain
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, amsfonts}
(I could add to that the non-AMS mathtools
, etc.). What do each of those packages do? Do I really need to list all of them, or do some of them load others? In particular, does any package load all of them, so that I can simply type
\usepackage{ams-everything}
shorter than the current list?
amssymb
loadsamsfonts
. – Gonzalo Medina Oct 20 '11 at 2:13