% Thanks to Claudio Fiandrino for his help % Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/75695/5645 \documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm} \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.6} \begin{document} \begin{preview} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ axis lines=middle, width=15cm, height=15cm, % size of the image grid = both, grid style={dashed, gray!30}, enlargelimits=true, xmin=-1, % start the diagram at this x-coordinate xmax= 1, % end the diagram at this x-coordinate ymin= 0, % start the diagram at this y-coordinate ymax= 1, % end the diagram at this y-coordinate /pgfplots/xtick={-1,-0.8,...,1}, % make steps of length 0.2 /pgfplots/ytick={0,0.1,...,1}, % make steps of length 0.1 axis background/.style={fill=white}, ylabel=y, xlabel=x,] \addplot[domain=-1:1, ultra thick,samples=100,blue] {1}; \label{plot one} \addplot[domain=-1:1, ultra thick,samples=100,red] {0}; \label{plot two} \node [draw,fill=white] at (rel axis cs: 0.8,0.8) {\shortstack[l]{ $f(x) = \left\lbrace\begin{array}{@{}l@{}l@{}l@{}} \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex]\node{\ref{plot one}}; \phantom{1cm}& 1 & \text{ if } x \in \mathbb{Q}\\ \tikz[baseline=-0.5ex]\node{\ref{plot two}}; & 0 & \text{ if } x \in \mathbb{R} \setminus \mathbb{Q} \end{array}\right. $}}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{preview} \end{document}