How to hide the page number in LaTex on first page of a chapter?

Question

How to hide the page number on first page of a chapter in LaTeX.

Answer 1

\thispagestyle{empty}

Answer 2

You could also use the titlesec package to get tremendous control over each chapter:

  % This is done with the titlesec package                                                                            
  \titleformat{\chapter}[display]
              {\normalfont\Large\filcenter} % {fmt}                                                                   
              {\thechapter.\ }              % {label}                                                                 
              {1pc}                         % {sep}                                                                   
              {\vspace{-1in}\enlargethispage{-0.5in}\thispagestyle{empty}}    % {before}