Following a suggestion by Jan Strube, the confluence LaTeX plugin has been installed. This allows LaTeX equations to be embedded in confluence pages like this
| Latex |
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| Wiki Markup |
{latex}\[z \left( 1 \ +\ \sqrt{\omega_{i+1} + \zeta -\frac{x+1}{\Theta +1} y + 1}\ \right)\ \ \ =\ \ \ 1\]{latex} |
More examples are available here.