Page numbering - removing page number from first page

Question

How do you turn off page numbering from the first page in a LaTeX document?

Answer 1

In the line after begin document, do the follows:

\begin{document}
 \pagenumbering{gobble} 

Do the title and author before this.

Then, on the actual first page, do:

\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}  

Answer 2

usually, the first page contains only a page number as its "headers". thus to turn off the page number on the first page, somewhere on that page issue the command \thispagestyle{empty}.

if this command is used on a non-first page, it will wipe out also any running heads that have been included. this can be useful for producing occasional entirely blank pages.