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marober
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Not me, but Donald EdwinErvin Knuth:

Use clever notation! Especially for sums, recurrences, binomials, etc. he developed very useful variations (Concrete Mathematics [Graham, Knuth, Patashnik], The Art of Computer Programming [Knuth])

The notations he proposes are clear, and, more importantly, lead to an amazing amount of intuition, which wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Not me, but Donald Edwin Knuth:

Use clever notation! Especially for sums, recurrences, binomials, etc. he developed very useful variations (Concrete Mathematics [Graham, Knuth, Patashnik], The Art of Computer Programming [Knuth])

The notations he proposes are clear, and, more importantly, lead to an amazing amount of intuition, which wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Not me, but Donald Ervin Knuth:

Use clever notation! Especially for sums, recurrences, binomials, etc. he developed very useful variations (Concrete Mathematics [Graham, Knuth, Patashnik], The Art of Computer Programming [Knuth])

The notations he proposes are clear, and, more importantly, lead to an amazing amount of intuition, which wouldn't be possible otherwise.

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marober
marober
  • 1
  • 2

Not me, but Donald Edwin Knuth:

Use clever notation! Especially for sums, recurrences, binomials, etc. he developed very useful variations (Concrete Mathematics [Graham, Knuth, Patashnik], The Art of Computer Programming [Knuth])

The notations he proposes are clear, and, more importantly, lead to an amazing amount of intuition, which wouldn't be possible otherwise.

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