* The Elements of Programming Style, with P. J. Plauger

* The Elements of Programming Style ( 1974, 1978 with PJ Plauger )

He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide, The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as " Strunk & White.

In 1959, White edited and updated The Elements of Style.

The complete history of The Elements of Style is detailed in Mark Garvey's Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style.

* The Elements of Style ( with William Strunk, Jr .) ( 1959, republished 1972, 1979, 1999, 2005 )

But after finding that his book On Writing had more useful and observant things to say about the craft than any book since Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, I have gotten over my own snobbery.

Strunk and White's The Elements of Style notes both uses.

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The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), also known as Strunk & White, by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.

In 2011, Time magazine listed The Elements of Style as one of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923.

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr., wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university.

Macmillan and Company publishers subsequently commissioned White to revise the 41-year-old text of The Elements of Style ( 1918 ) for a 1959 edition ( Strunk had died in 1946 ).

The history of this writing manual is told in Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White ’ s The Elements of Style ( 2009 ), by Mark Garvey.

In The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage — and the cultivation of good writing — with the recommendation " Make every word tell "; hence, the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: " Omit needless words.

He also produced the second ( 1972 ) and third ( 1979 ) editions of The Elements of Style, by which time the book's length had extended to eighty-five pages.

The third edition of The Elements of Style ( 1979 ) features 54 points: a list of common word-usage errors ; 11 rules of punctuation and grammar ; 11 principles of writing ; 11 matters of form, and 21 reminders for a better style, in Chapter V. The final reminder, the 21st, " Prefer the standard to the offbeat ", is thematically integral to the subject of The Elements of Style, yet does stand as a discrete essay about writing lucid prose.

The fourth edition of The Elements of Style ( 2000 ), published fifty-four years after the death of William Strunk Jr., omits his stylistic advice about masculine pronouns: " unless the antecedent is or must be feminine "; and, in its place, editor E. B.

Five years later, the fourth edition was re-published as The Elements of Style Illustrated ( 2005 ), by the designer Maira Kalman.

*" The Elements ", a mnemonic song of the periodic table by Tom Lehrer

* IPR Toolkit – An Overview, Key Issues and Toolkit Elements ( September 2009 ) by Professor Charles Oppenheim and Naomi Korn at the Strategic Content Alliance

Elements heavier in atomic number than iron, as heavy as uranium and plutonium, are produced by explosive nucleosynthesis in supernovas and other cataclysmic cosmic events.

* The Four Elements In the Western Tradition Essay on Golden Dawn elemental tradition by V. N.

* The Elements: Air Neo-pagan version of " The Ancient Greek Esoteric Doctrine of the Elements " by John Opsopaus.

Elements of the Oral Torah were committed to writing and edited by Judah HaNasi in the Mishnah in 200 CE ; much more of the Oral Torah were committed to writing in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, which were edited around 600 CE and 450 CE, respectively.

Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his fifth-century Commentary on the Elements, as the author of Elements, that he was mentioned by Archimedes, and that when King Ptolemy asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, " Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

* Proclus, A commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, translated by Glenn Raymond Morrow, Princeton University Press, 1992.

Near the beginning of the first book of the Elements, Euclid gives five postulates ( axioms ) for plane geometry, stated in terms of constructions ( as translated by Thomas Heath ):

Euclid himself seems to have considered it as being qualitatively different from the others, as evidenced by the organization of the Elements: the first 28 propositions he presents are those that can be proved without it.

The very first geometric proof in the Elements, shown in the figure above, is that any line segment is part of a triangle ; Euclid constructs this in the usual way, by drawing circles around both endpoints and taking their intersection as the third vertex.

* The Elements trilogy, three films by Indian film-maker Deepa Mehta

* The Lower Elements, a fictional underground city in the Artemis Fowl world, created by Eoin Colfer

* " The Elements: Fire ", a 1966 song by The Beach Boys

* " The Elements " ( song ), by Tom Lehrer

* Elements Box, by Mike Oldfield, four CD edition

Elements inside embedded sequences are referenced by additional bracked index values, thus X refers to the second element contained in the sequence that is the third element of X.

Following the French committee's findings, in his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind ( 1818 ), Dugald Stewart, an influential academic philosopher of the " Scottish School of Common Sense ", encouraged physicians to salvage elements of Mesmerism by replacing the supernatural theory of " animal magnetism " with a new interpretation based upon " common sense " laws of physiology and psychology.

William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher, and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions, in his 1847 work " Elements of Individualism ".

( 3 ) The Elements of Astronomy, by Al-Fargani ( Alfraganus ); possibly translated from a Latin version.

( Book X of Euclid's Elements is described by Pappus as being largely based on Theaetetus's work.