LaTeX is not able to recognize the $square$ and $Box$ symbols in article class, don't know why?

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In the beamer class square and Box are working fine but in the article class they don't work. Any idea why? What can be done to make them work, do I need to use some special math symbols package?

egreg · Accepted Answer

The beamer class loads, by default, both amsmath and amssymb (unless these are explicitly disabled with the relevant class options).
The square and Box command are indeed provided by amssymb and loading this package would suffice for using them; however, if a document uses those symbols it is likely about mathematics and so amsmath is recommended as well.
Add
usepackage{amsmath}
usepackage{amssymb}

to your document preamble.

LaTeX is not able to recognize the $square$ and $Box$ symbols in article class, don't know why?

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