Timeline for Should one use "above" and "below" in mathematical writing?
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| Dec 3, 2021 at 3:39 | answer | added | armando.sano | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | Goldstern | I agree with all of the above, but none of the ... uh ... below. Sounds terrible, but merriam-webster.com/dictionary/below says that even "below" is an adjective and a noun. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 21:49 | answer | added | Seva | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 14:09 | comment | added | B. Bischof | I am amused at the joke in the above comment. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 12:02 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 29 | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 9:57 | answer | added | sleepless in beantown | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 12:42 | answer | added | John Ruskin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2010 at 12:18 | vote | accept | Spiro Karigiannis | ||
| Aug 11, 2010 at 16:08 | answer | added | Jim Humphreys | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 16:06 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I think "the equation above" is fine, even if the equation is on an earlier page. I'm not happy about "the above equation"; "above" is an adverb and a preposition, not an adjective. Years ago, I was taught that "the above equation" is as bad as the (at the time obviously barbaric) phrase "the below equation," but nowadays I occasionally see "the below equation" in print. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 15:57 | comment | added | James Griffin | I'd prefer "above", it definitely makes sense, after all we live in a digital age of scroll bars. However it may become confusing if you're writing in a two-column format. I'll propose a solution, from now on we all compile our documents in 'scroll' format, that is without page breaks, just one long page. However I do have the feeling that the university library would refuse to take my thesis in the form of an actual scroll. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 15:48 | answer | added | David E Speyer | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 15:19 | answer | added | Thierry Zell | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 14:25 | comment | added | Arend Bayer | I always thought "above" means "earlier in this text", regardless of whether that's on the same page or on an earlier page. Mirriam-Webster seems to agree with me: mw4.m-w.com/dictionary/above lists "2b : higher on the same page or on a preceding page" as one of the meanings. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 14:12 | comment | added | KConrad | "the earlier equation" sucks! There are lots of earlier equations. Well, there are lots of equations above, but in context it sounds a lot better to refer to the previous equation or the equation above instead of the earlier one. On the other hand, if you're going to refer to an equation why not number it? | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 14:04 | answer | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | timeline score: 75 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 13:56 | answer | added | Greg Kuperberg | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 13:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Spiro Karigiannis | ||
| Aug 11, 2010 at 13:41 | comment | added | Robin Chapman | I'd say that if you refer to an equation, you should number it. Beware: a few journals insist on labelling every displayed formula. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 13:38 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | I never really thought about whether I use above words in my writing. But their meaning seems clear enough. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 13:29 | history | asked | Spiro Karigiannis | CC BY-SA 2.5 |