TABLE OF CONTENTS Two authors of the present book freely acknowledge that they are more fluent in German and French, yet they enjoy communicating in English and are convinced that it is more than mere historical coincidence that has led English to become the lingua franca of modern science.
HANS F. EBEL, CLAUS BLIEFERT, and WILLIAM E. RUSSEY, The Art of Scientific Writing (1987)
I ventured to write this book in English because it will be more easily read in poor English than in good German by 90% of my intended readers.
HANS J. STETTER, Analysis of Discretization Methods for Ordinary Differntial Equations (1973)
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Please feel free to change any words that you wish. I tried to make it sound Vulcan a lot of unnecessarily long words.
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Unification II", Stardate 45245.8.
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin a language with which it has precious little in common.
BILL BRYSON, Mother Torgue: English and How it Got That Way (1990)
If English is not your first language then writing mathematics is doubly difficult, since you have to grapple with grammar and vocabulary as you try to express your thoughts. In this chapter I offer a few basic suggestions and give some references for further reading. The problems encountered by a non-native writer of English depend...
