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
Unknown macro: {latex}
[z \left( 1 \ +\ \sqrt{\omega_
Unknown macro: {i+1}
+ \zeta -\frac
Unknown macro: {x+1}
Unknown macro: {Theta +1}
y + 1}\ \right)\ \ \ =\ \ \ 1]
More examples are available here.