Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, Third Edition

by Nicholas J. Higham , SIAM, 2020. xxi+353 pp., softcover, ISBN 978-1-611976-09-0.

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Book Downloads

• Table of contents of the book.
• Preface of the book.
• Index of the book.
• GitHub repository containing bibliography of the book (364 entries), in BibTeX form and a PDF form. The bib entries contain DOI links. Just click links in the PDF file.
• Bib entry for the book (or use njhigham.bib in this repository).

Blog Posts

Writing

• Nick Higham Talks Mathematical Writing and Publishing with SIAM.
• Top Five Tips on Book Writing.
• More Tips on Book and Thesis Writing.
• A Mathematician Looks at the Collins English Dictionary
• Acronymous Thoughts
• Dot Grid Paper for Writing Mathematics
• Five Examples of Proofreading
• Hyphenation of Compound Words.
• Hyphenation Question: Row-wise or Rowwise?
• Punctuating Lists
• The Serial, or Oxford, Comma
• The Spotlight Factor
• Typesetting Mathematics According to the ISO Standard.
• Writing Mathematics in Pencil, and Why Analogue is Not Dead
• Preparing CMYK Figures for Book Printing.

Workflow

• Distraction-Free Editing with Emacs.
• Emacs: The Ultimate Editor?
• Emacs and Org Mode: What People are Saying.
• My Dot Emacs.
• Managing BibTeX Files with Emacs.
• Org Mode Syntax Cheat Sheet.

Public Peculiarities

• Publication Peculiarities: Papers.
• Publication Peculiarities: Titles.
• Publication Peculiarities: Sequences of Papers.
• Publication Peculiarities: Acknowledgements
• Publication Peculiarities: Author Lists
• Publication Peculiarities: More Author Lists
• Publication Peculiarities: More Examples

LaTeX

• Top Tips for New LaTeX Users.
• Lists in LaTeX with the enumitem Package.
• Better LaTeX Tables with Booktabs.
• How To Typeset an Ellipsis in a Mathematical Expression.
• Three BibTeX Tips.
• Top 5 Beamer Tips.
• More LaTeX and Beamer Tips.
• Fine-Tuning Spacing in LaTeX Equations.
• Second Edition (2016) of Learning LaTeX by David Griffiths and Des Higham.
• Good Times in MATLAB: How to Typeset the Multiplication Symbol.

Posters

• Poster templates on Overleaf site.
• Example posters with critique.
• Video How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates) by Mike Morrison. Also see (for example), the article #betterposter.

Miscellaneous links

• LaTeX at Wikibooks.
• doi2bib (vonnverts doi to BibTeX bib entry).
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary (requires subscription).
• Oxford English Dictionary (requires subscription).
• The Chicago Manual of Style (requires subscription).