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Some hints on mathematical style by David Goss.
Writing a Math Phase Two Paper, instructions from Steven L. Kleiman to MIT undergraduates about how to write a mathematics essay.
Leonard Gillman, Writing Mathematics Well: A Manual for Authors, Mathematical Association of America, 1987. This is a short pamphlet of rules for good exposition.
Nicholas J. Higham, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 1993. This book has lots of good advice, including a section titled: "When English is a foreign language".
Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts, Mathematical Writing, Mathematical Association of America, 1989. This book contains transcripts of lectures from Knuth's 1987 course "Mathematical Writing" at Stanford University. Yes, this is THE Knuth, grand wizard and creator of TeX.
Steven G. Krantz, A Primer of Mathematical Writing, American Mathematical Society, 1996. In this book, a well known researcher and expositor chats with you over lunch about how to do a good job with the various writing tasks of a mathematician in academe.
The Math 696 course
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