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OverviewHandbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences provides advice on all aspects of scientific writing, with a particular focus on writing mathematics. Its readable style and handy format, coupled with an extensive bibliography and comprehensive index, make it useful for everyone from undergraduates to seasoned professionals. This third edition revises, updates, and expands the best-selling second edition to reflect modern writing and publishing practices and builds on the author’s extensive experience in writing and speaking about mathematics. Key features: coverage of fundamentals of writing, including English usage, revising a draft, and writing when your first language is not English; thorough treatment of mathematical writing, including how to choose notation, how to choose between words and symbols, and how to format equations; many tips for exploiting LATEX and BibTEX; advice on how to write and publish a paper, covering the entire publication process; and anecdotes, quotes, and unusual facts that enliven the presentation. The new edition: has been reorganized to make the book easier to use for reference; treats modern developments in publishing such as open access, DOIs, and ORCID; has a new chapter on workflow covering text editors, markup languages, version control, and much more; has a new chapter that discusses the principles of indexing and how to prepare an index in LATEX; has a new chapter on reviewing a paper, book proposal, or book; has a new chapter “Writing a Book” that includes advice on choosing a publisher and LATEX tips particular to books; contains more on poster design, and discusses e-posters and the poster blitz; and has a new chapter giving advice on writing a blog post. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicholas J. HighamPublisher: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S. Imprint: Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S. Edition: 3rd Revised edition Weight: 0.785kg ISBN: 9781611976090ISBN 10: 161197609 Pages: 353 Publication Date: 30 March 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNicholas J. Higham is Royal Society Research Professor and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of more than 150 papers and four SIAM books and is editor of The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a SIAM Fellow, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a past president of SIAM. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |