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Earlier this year, GitHub added support for LaTeX style mathematical expressions and Mermaid diagrams in Markdown. However, until now, GitHub wikis were missing this support. You can now use these formatting features in GitHub wikis.

For more information about using mathematical expressions and Mermaid with GitHub, see creating diagrams and writing mathematical expressions in the GitHub documentation.

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Users can now delineate mathematical expressions using ```math fenced code block syntax in addition to the already supported delimiters. Two dollar sign $$ delimiters are not required if this method is used.

**Here is some math!**

```math
\sqrt{3}
```

becomes

math-expression-as-a-fenced-code-block

Read more about working with advanced formatting

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