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by B-Con 1923 days ago
As a math major at UCD, I never saw Lee's essay, so I'm guessing it's from the past few years.

I did read Halmos's, though. It was helpful for me because I was starting from a very programming centric frame of mind and I was surprised at how "conversational" math writing was. Reading it helped me start to learn how to express ideas precisely and clearly without a strict code-like structure.