Timeline for Why did mathematical notation stay so hard to read?
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Jun 17, 2020 at 10:27 | vote | accept | Andrew Peter Prifer | ||
Jun 16, 2020 at 19:00 | comment | added | reuns | Maths symbols (and vocabulary) are a compromise between rigor and readability, and generally it works from the concept of relevant non-trivial example (ie. easy to generalize), the latter is what unfortunately many people forget : without relevant examples most theorems/proofs are just abstract nonsense. | |
Jun 16, 2020 at 17:27 | comment | added | Michael Bächtold | Is it really the case that the typical computer program needs more variables than the typical mathematical text? | |
Jun 16, 2020 at 15:15 | comment | added | user44143 | Programming languages have plenty of conventions for variable names, e.g. web.mst.edu/~cpp/common/hungarian.html and wiki.eclipse.org/Recommenders/… | |
Jun 16, 2020 at 14:30 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
Jun 16, 2020 at 14:25 | comment | added | LSpice | We are not constrained to use ASCII, but, as Halmos pointed out (not in these terms), we don't take nearly enough advantage of the full spread afforded to us by Unicode—a lot of Greek, a bit of Hebrew, and the most horrible abuse of diacritics …. | |
Jun 16, 2020 at 14:20 | history | answered | Ben McKay | CC BY-SA 4.0 |