Books or authors who write about how to write mathematics properly

Question

I've always been interested how to write maths properly. Depending of the knowledge of the reader, you can't solve every detail of a proof of a theorem. You have to show the most important facts, unless your proof turns out tedious and languish. I'm writing a little paper about this to my students and I would like to know some authors who discuss about this, I need some references.

Answer 1

Jean Pierre Serre is in some sense a reference on good article writing. I would watch the awesome lecture of him "How to write mathematics badly". Gives very good insights that you could pass to your students.

I would also suggest Mathematical Writing, of Donald Knuth

Answer 2

See these books:

• A Primer of Mathematical Writing by Steven G. Kranz.

• Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Hingham.