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1、MathematicalWritingbyDonaldE.Knuth,TracyLarrabee,andPaulM.RobertsThisreportisbasedonacourseofthesamenamegivenatStanfordUniversityduringautumnquarter,1987.Here'sthecatalogdescription:CS209.MathematicalWriting
2、Issuesoftechnicalwritingandtheef-fectivepresentationofmathematicsandcompu
3、terscience.Preparationoftheses,papers,books,anditerate"computerprograms.Atermpaperonatopicofyourchoice;thispapermaybeusedforcreditinanothercourse.The rstthreelectureswereaminicourse"thatsummarizedthebasics.Abouttwohundredpeopleattendedthosethreesessions,whichweredevotedprimarilyt
4、oadiscussionofthepointsinx1ofthisreport.Anexercise(x2)andasuggestedsolution(x3)werealsopartoftheminicourse.Theremaining28lecturescoveredtheseandotherissuesindepth.Wesawmanyexamplesofbefore"andfter"frommanuscriptsinprogress.Welearnedhowtoavoidexcessivesubscriptsandsuperscripts.Wed
5、iscussedthedocumentationofalgorithms,com-puterprograms,andusermanuals.Weconsideredtheprocessofrefereeingandediting.Westudiedhowtomakee ectivediagramsandtables,andhowto ndappropriatequota-tionstospiceupatext.Someofthematerialduplicatedsomeofwhatwouldbediscussedinwritingclasseso ere
6、dbytheEnglishdepartment,butthevastmajorityofthelecturesweredevotedtoissuesthatarespeci ctomathematicsand/orcomputerscience.GuestlecturesbyHerbWilf(UniversityofPennsylvania),Je Ullman(Stanford),LeslieLamport(DigitalEquipmentCorporation),NilsNilsson(Stanford),Mary-ClairevanLeunen(Di
7、gitalEquipmentCorporation),RosalieStemer(SanFranciscoChronicle),andPaulHalmos(UniversityofSantaClara),wereaspecialhighlightaseachoftheseoutstandingauthorspresentedtheirownperspectivesontheproblemsofmathematicalcommunication.Thisreportcontainstranscriptsofthelecturesandcopiesofvari
8、oushandoutsthatweredistributedduringthequarter.Wethinkthecoursewasabletoclarifyasurprisinglylargenumberofissuesthatplayanimportantpartinthelifeofeveryprofessionalwhoworksinmathematical elds.Thereforewehopethatpeoplewhowereunabletoattendthecoursemightstillbene tfromit,byreadingthis
9、summaryofwhattranspired.Theauthor
