TeX is written by a mathematician, and has always contained good support for formatting mathematical text. AUC TeX supports this tradition, by offering a special minor mode for entering text with many mathematic symbols. You can enter this mode by typing C-c ~.
LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix to allow easy typing of
mathematical symbols. ` will read a character from the keyboard,
and insert the symbol as specified in LaTeX-math-list. If given a
prefix argument, the symbol will be surrounded by dollar signs.You can use another prefix key (instead of `) by setting the variable LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix.
LaTeX-math-mode commands;
This value defaults to `.
The variable LaTeX-math-list holds the actual mapping.
LaTeX-math-mode.
The car of each element is the key and the cdr is the macro name.
The AUC TeX distributions includes a reference card for
LaTeX-math-mode with a list of all math mode commands.