Timeline for "There exists" vs "There is determined"
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| May 1, 2017 at 11:33 | comment | added | gnasher729 | @alephzero: Nobody's writing is timeless. | |
| May 1, 2017 at 2:44 | comment | added | alephzero | If the OP wants to write better math, then read some mathematicians who wrote well in English - for example Bertrand Russell, G. H. Hardy, Richard Courant & Bertrand Robbins.(No doubt there are more modern examples, but those authors' writing is timeless.) | |
| May 1, 2017 at 2:36 | comment | added | alephzero | There is nothing wrong with the grammar described in this answer, but I'm not sure it is appropriate for a mathematical paper. "In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit" is a good way to start a novel, but "On a vertical line lie all known zeros of the zeta function" is not a good way to write math, IMO. One of the nice things about math papers in a foreign language is that learning enough Russian, Japanese, etc., vocabulary and grammar to read them is trivial, compared with the effort required to understand the math itself. IMO the same should be true of a math paper in English. | |
| Apr 30, 2017 at 19:17 | vote | accept | Salvo Tringali | ||
| Apr 30, 2017 at 17:38 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |