Natalia Chechina

Glossary for Mathematical Writing

Nicholas J. Higham

1. Without loss of generality = I have done an easy special case.

2. By a straightforward computation = I lost my notes.

3. The details are left to the reader = I cannot do it.

4. The following alternative proof of X's result may be of interest = I cannot understand X.

5. It will be observed that = I hope you had not noticed that.

6. Correct to within an order of magnitude = wrong.