Display math formulas in result tables
In MediaWiki, a tag with the structure {{ #functionname: param1 | param2 | param3 }} is called a parser function (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parser_functions)
When MediaWiki displays a page containing such a parser function, it finds these parser functions and executes them. These parser functions usually contain text, MediaWiki markup language and HTML. The MediaWiki markup language is translated into HTML elements beforehand. For example, something like
{|
| Orange || Apple || more
|-
| Bread || Pie || more
|-
| Butter || Ice cream || and more
|}
Is translated into HTML:
<table><tbody>
<tr><td>Orange</td><td>Apple</td><td>more</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bread</td><td>Pie</td><td>more</td></tr><tr>
<td>Butter</td><td>Ice cream</td><td>and more</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
The browser finally translates the HTML into a visible table.
While explaining all this: I quickly googled and yes, MathML has become an HTML5 standard! So there might be actually a way to display the Math Symbols in the result! (This is the page I found: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html5/html5_mathml.htm)
So finally there might be a possibility to show the Math in the result set, maybe with some trickery involved...