I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding distracting elements seldom added pro forma.
The best source for me has been the Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham [1]. His I can fully get behind. Another is Writing Mathematics Well by Leonard Gillman [3]. Still another is Mathematical Writing by Franco Vivaldi [4].
With regard to your comment, and since we are on the subject of style, I would rephrase "... only contend on two things" as "... only differ on two things". While it is grammatically correct, it feels awkward.
This is great advice.
I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding distracting elements seldom added pro forma.
The best source for me has been the Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham [1]. His I can fully get behind. Another is Writing Mathematics Well by Leonard Gillman [3]. Still another is Mathematical Writing by Franco Vivaldi [4].
[1] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
[2] https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611976106
[3] https://bookstore.ams.org/mmbk-7/
[4] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-6527-9
With regard to your comment, and since we are on the subject of style, I would rephrase "... only contend on two things" as "... only differ on two things". While it is grammatically correct, it feels awkward.
You're right, thanks. English is not my mother tongue so I still fall for some language traps.
May I add a more concise yet helpful presentation of Prof. Bertsekas Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing
https://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/Ten_Rules.pdf
Nice! I haven't seen this one yet.
I submitted a link here earlier in the same spirit that you might appreciate:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22https://mathcomm.org/writin...
I'm surprised at how applicable this is to writing in general. Very good guide.