Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham

By Nicholas J. Higham

That mathematicians price first-class writing turns into obvious whilst one considers the variety of expository writing prizes presented via their organisations and who has received these awards. The guide of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences bargains a accomplished, detailed presentation of the numerous parts a mathemetician or technical editor of mathematical papers needs to take care of from using dictionaries and thesaursus, via what makes for great mathematical writing, sort, making displays, publishing, and lots more and plenty extra. in reality, it could possibly attempt to conceal an excessive amount of. This ebook is one to maintain convenient subsequent in your writing zone for simple reference.

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Don't use no double negatives. 6. Remember to never split an infinitive. 7. When dangling, don't use participles. 8. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. 9. Don't write a run-on sentence it is difficult when you got to punctuate it so it makes sense when the reader reads what you wrote. 10. About sentence fragments. 5. Adjective and Adverb Abuse Use an adjective or adverb only if it earns its place. The adjectives or adverbs very, rather, quite, nice and interesting should be used with caution in technical writing, as they are imprecise.

1. First use in print of some symbols. Sources: [49], [116], [163]. ) imaginary unit (A/— 1) congruence factorial summation binomial coefficient product nabla Kronecker delta absolute value big oh floor, ceiling Year of publication 1655 (Wallis) 1706 (Jones) 1736 (Euler) 1794 (Euler) 1801 (Gauss) 1808 (Kramp) 1820 (Fourier) 1826 (von Ettinghausen) 1829 (Jacobi) 1853 (Hamilton) 1868 (Kronecker) 1876 (Weierstrass) 1894 (Bachmann) 1962 (Iverson) • Explain in words what the symbols mean if you think the reader might have difficulty grasping the meaning or essential feature.

Capitalization Words that are derived from a person's name inherit the capitalization. Thus: Gaussian elimination, Hamiltonian system, Hermitian matrix, Jacobian matrix, Lagrangian function, Euler's method, and so on. The incorrect form "hermitian" is sometimes seen. The Lax Equivalence Theorem is quite different from a lax equivalence theorem! Some (but not all) dictionaries list "abelian" with a small "a", showing that eponymous adjectives can gradually become accepted in uncapitalized form. There does not seem to be a standard rule for when to capitalize the word following a colon.

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