Jupyter markdown not working

Question

I am trying to display bold words, equations and italic notes on my Jupyter notebook. However, I can only write comments with a '#' symbol and any other attempts to create indentation, bold words and equations are not working.

I need to be able to display Math notations such as:

$^1/_2$
${3 \over 4}$

Could I be missing a library import or anything similar ?

I'm using Jupyter version 5.0 and Anaconda with Python 3.5

Answer 1

You need to convert the cell to a Markdown-type cell. You can do this in command mode by selecting the cell and pressing m (if the cell is in edit mode with a green border, press Esc first), or by choosing the "Markdown" type from the dropdown in the center of the menu bar.

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can start the cell using the cell magic %%markdown and then run that cell.