How to show math equations in general github's markdown(not github's blog)

Question

After investigating, I\'ve found mathjax can do this. But when I write some example in my markdown file, it doesn\'t show the correct equations:

I have added this in

Answer 1

One other work-around is to use jupyter notebooks and use the markdown mode in cells to render equations.

Basic stuff seems to work perfectly, like centered equations

\begin{equation}
...
\end{equation}

or inline equations

$ \sum_{\forall i}{x_i^{2}} $

Although, one of the functions that I really wanted did not render at all in github was \mbox{}, which was a bummer. But, all in all this has been the most successful way of rendering equations on github.