Demonstrates a bug in jupyter notebook rendering of Mathjax/LaTeX where the LaTeX syntax depends on delimiter

mathjax_bug.png

quick_bug_demo.ipynb

{
 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is \\\\[\\frac{(Λ_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ_{0,T})}{k!}\\\\]\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is $$\\frac{(Λ_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ_{0,T})}{k!}$$\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is \\\\(\\frac{(Λ_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ_{0,T})}{k!}\\\\)\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is $\\frac{(Λ_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ_{0,T})}{k!}$"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "markdown",
   "metadata": {},
   "source": [
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is \\\\[\\frac{(Λ\\_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ\\_{0,T})}{k!}\\\\]\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is $$\\frac{(Λ\\_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ\\_{0,T})}{k!}$$\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is \\\\(\\frac{(Λ\\_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ\\_{0,T})}{k!}\\\\)\n",
    "\n",
    "pdf of k arrivals in interval (0,T) is $\\frac{(Λ\\_{0,T})^k \\exp(Λ\\_{0,T})}{k!}$"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "metadata": {
  "kernelspec": {
   "display_name": "Python 3",
   "language": "python",
   "name": "python3"
  },
  "language_info": {
   "codemirror_mode": {
    "name": "ipython",
    "version": 3
   },
   "file_extension": ".py",
   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
   "name": "python",
   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
   "version": "3.5.0"
  }
 },
 "nbformat": 4,
 "nbformat_minor": 0
}

Ok so this is a major bug also in github's rendering of Mathjax, though that is a different one