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1、MathematicalWritingbyDonaldE.Knuth,TracyLarrabee,andPaulM.RobertsThisreportisbasedonacourseofthesamenamegivenatStanfordUniversityduringautumnquarter,1987.Here’sthecatalogdescription:CS209.MathematicalWriting—Issuesoftechnicalwritingandtheef-fectivepresentationofmathematicsandcompute
2、rscience.Preparationoftheses,papers,books,and“literate”computerprograms.Atermpaperonatopicofyourchoice;thispapermaybeusedforcreditinanothercourse.Thefirstthreelectureswerea“minicourse”thatsummarizedthebasics.Abouttwohundredpeopleattendedthosethreesessions,whichweredevotedprimarilytoa
3、discussionofthepointsin§1ofthisreport.Anexercise(§2)andasuggestedsolution(§3)werealsopartoftheminicourse.Theremaining28lecturescoveredtheseandotherissuesindepth.Wesawmanyexamplesof“before”and“after”frommanuscriptsinprogress.Welearnedhowtoavoidexcessivesubscriptsandsuperscripts.Wedis
4、cussedthedocumentationofalgorithms,com-puterprograms,andusermanuals.Weconsideredtheprocessofrefereeingandediting.Westudiedhowtomakeeffectivediagramsandtables,andhowtofindappropriatequota-tionstospiceupatext.Someofthematerialduplicatedsomeofwhatwouldbediscussedinwritingclassesofferedbyt
5、heEnglishdepartment,butthevastmajorityofthelecturesweredevotedtoissuesthatarespecifictomathematicsand/orcomputerscience.GuestlecturesbyHerbWilf(UniversityofPennsylvania),JeffUllman(Stanford),LeslieLamport(DigitalEquipmentCorporation),NilsNilsson(Stanford),Mary-ClairevanLeunen(DigitalE
6、quipmentCorporation),RosalieStemer(SanFranciscoChronicle),andPaulHalmos(UniversityofSantaClara),wereaspecialhighlightaseachoftheseoutstandingauthorspresentedtheirownperspectivesontheproblemsofmathematicalcommunication.Thisreportcontainstranscriptsofthelecturesandcopiesofvarioushando
7、utsthatweredistributedduringthequarter.Wethinkthecoursewasabletoclarifyasurprisinglylargenumberofissuesthatplayanimportantpartinthelifeofeveryprofessionalwhoworksinmathematicalfields.Thereforewehopethatpeoplewhowereunabletoattendthecoursemightstillbenefitfromit,byreadingthissummaryofw
8、hattranspired.Theau
