The Little Book of Math Into English

This colorful and concise little book is uniquely tailored for those who write mathematical texts at any level and are eager to improve their English writing skills. The easy-to-read guide focuses on helping the writer avoid common English mistakes in mathematical writing. With just a few minutes of engaging, light reading each day, the reader will learn to create clearer, more readable, math texts.

The book covers 23 crucial topics, ranging from correct article and preposition usage to proper usage of dashes, conjunctions, and prepositions. It also addresses the construction of direct sentences, effective introductory phrases for formulas, and more. As a bonus to the reader, ’Practice makes perfect’ exercises relating to each topic are freely accessible on this book’s Springer website.

Appendix A gives a quick tutorial on grammatical terms and constructs. Appendix B looks at ChatGPT and the positive aspects of its powerful capabilities. Additionally, Paul Halmos’s article on ’How to write mathematics’ is included in Appendix C. It deals with the mathematical aspects of writing.

George Grätzer has written about 270 research papers and 33 books. Here are his LaTeX books: B. LATEX Books [13] G. Gratzer, Math into LATEX. A Simple Introduction to AMS-LATEX. Birkhäuser Boston, Boston MA, 1993. [14] G. Grätzer, The new standard LATEX. Personal TEX Inc. 1995. [15] G. Grätzer, Math into LATEX. An Introduction to LATEX and AMS-LATEX. Birkhäuser Boston, Boston MA, 1995. [16] G. Grätzer, First Steps in LATEX. Birkhäuser, Boston, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999. [17] G. Grätzer, Math into LATEX, third edition. Birkhäuser, Boston, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000. [18] G. Grätzer, Pervije Sagiv LaTeX’e. Mir Publisher, Moscow, 2000. (Russian) [19] G. Grätzer, PCTEX: Quick Start. Personal TEX, Inc., Mill Valley CA, 2000. [20] G. Grätzer, PCTEX: Quick Start, second edition. Personal TEX, Inc., San Francisco CA, 2003. [21] G. Grätzer, More Math into LATEX. 4th edition. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2007. [22] G. Grätzer, Practical LATEX. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2014. [23] G. Grätzer, More Math into LATEX. 5th edition. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2016. [24] G. Grätzer, More Math into LATEX. 6th edition. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2024.