This is a very basic template for mathematical presentations using LaTeX and beamer, aimed at University of Edinburgh students on the Honours Analysis course 2017-2018, for their "Skills" presentations.
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% The following lines are the preamble. They help LaTeX set-up the document, but do not print anything yet.
\documentclass{beamer} % This tells LaTeX the document will be a "beamer" presentation
\usetheme{Madrid} % Sets basic formatting. Lots of options, google "beamer themes"
\usecolortheme{dolphin} % Sets the colour scheme. Lots of options, google "beamer color themes"
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} % Manually changes one piece of formatting. See what the difference is by commenting this line out.
\date{} % Insert the date of your presentation. \today gives an unsurprising automatic date.
\title[Template]{Honours Analysis Skills\\Example Presentation Template} % Insert your title. Depending on the theme you choose above, a "short title" might be useful, as it will appear on the footer of each slide.
\author[R Gratwick]{Richard Gratwick} % Insert your name
\institute[UoE]{University of Edinburgh} % Self-explanatory
\begin{document} % Let's begin
% Presentations come in slide frames. You have to tell LaTeX when to start a frame, and when to end the frame. The most common error beginners make with beamer is forgetting the \end{frame} command.
\begin{frame}
\titlepage % Prints a title page populated with the information given in the preamble
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Uniform convergence}
\begin{definition} % There are lots of "theorem-like" environments for beamer just as usual with LaTeX: definition, theorem, lemma, example, proof, etc...
A sequence of functions $f_n \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ \emph{converges uniformly} to a function $f \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ if for all $\epsilon > 0$ there exists an $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $n \geq N$ implies
\[
\sup_{x \in \mathbb{R}} |f_n(x) - f(x)| < \epsilon.
\]
\end{definition}
\pause % Generates a break in the slide presentation
\begin{block}{Pointwise and uniform continuity} % Blocks are a beamer speciality.
\begin{itemize}
\item Uniform convergence implies pointwise convergence
\item Pointwise convergence does not imply uniform convergence
\end{itemize}
\end{block}
\pause
\begin{theorem}
Let $f_n \colon\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ be continuous and converge uniformly to $f \colon \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$. Then $f$ is continuous.
\end{theorem}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Uniform convergence and continuity}
\begin{proof}
Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$ and let $\epsilon > 0$. There exists $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $n \geq N$ implies
\begin{equation}
\label{eq1}
\sup_{x \in \mathbb{R}} |f_n(x) - f(x)| < \frac{\epsilon}{3}.
\end{equation}
There exists $\delta > 0$ such that
\begin{equation}
\label{eq2}
|f_N(x) - f_N(y) | < \frac{\epsilon}{3}\ \mbox{whenever}\ |x-y| < \delta.
\end{equation}
Then inequalities \eqref{eq1} and \eqref{eq2} imply that whenever $|x-y | < \delta$, we have
\begin{align*}
|f(x) - f(y)|
& \leq |f(x) - f_N(x)| + |f_N(x) - f_N(y)| + | f_N(y) - f(y) | \\
& < \frac{\epsilon}{3} + \frac{\epsilon}{3} + \frac{\epsilon}{3} \\
& = \epsilon.
\end{align*}
\end{proof}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{People}
This subject owes much to
\begin{columns} % A handy way of putting things side-by-side
\begin{column}{0.4\textwidth} % this says the column will be the width of 0.4 times the \textwidth
\begin{figure} % for graphics
\includegraphics[height=4cm]{Cauchy} % save your image file in your project, and include using \includegraphics{filename}. Specify height, width, scaling as shown.
\caption{Augustin-Louis Cauchy} % there are ways to delete the "Figure:" if you want to
\end{figure}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.4\textwidth}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[height=4cm]{Weierstrass}
\caption{Karl Weierstrass}
\end{figure}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document} % Done!