Numbers and Mathematics
Numbers
Do you have twenty questions about how to format numbers鈥攐r 20?
It depends: the various disciplines and style guides have different norms for incorporating numbers into your text, so we've assembled a series of infographics, linked below, to give you an overview of how some of the major styles treat numbers. These documents provide useful rules of thumb; consult with your advisor or professor if you have questions about particular points of numerical usage:
For more information on how to effectively employ numbers in your text, see our resources on displaying data, as well as the links below.
Mathematical Expressions
There are 鈭�8 main ways to incorporate mathematics into your text: you can either place it in-line, surrounded by text, or you can place it on its own line鈥攁s a display equation.
How to choose between the two? And what鈥檚 the proper way to punctuate those display equations (and there is, of course, a proper way)? Our resources will guide your calculations and lead you to the correct answer:
For more information on how to Fermat鈥攕orry, format鈥攖he math in your document, check out the links.
More on Numbers and Mathematics in Writing
Web Pages
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- "," Edward Tufte, Graphics Press
Articles
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Books
- , Robert K. Gerver, Information Age Publishing
- , 2nd ed., Nicholas Higham, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- , Jonathan Koomey, Analytics Press
- , Derrick Neiderman and David Boyum, Broadway Books
