Timeline for Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?
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| Dec 6, 2012 at 22:37 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | I'm sure that the comparative awkwardness of notation for hypermatrices at least partly explains their lack of popularity amongst mathematicians, and lack of popularity leads to lack of theory. So I think this answer is partly correct, but it needs to be combined with answers like Florian's that expose genuine features that differ for $D=2$ and $D>2$. | |
| Dec 6, 2012 at 20:07 | comment | added | Gil Kalai | I do not think this is the answer. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 19:34 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | And the fact that we are speaking of this now, when computers make it easier to treat hypermatrices, seems to me a sort of confirm of ypur thesis. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 18:22 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | I really think this is the answer. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 at 16:48 | history | edited | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 2, 2010 at 16:34 | history | answered | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | CC BY-SA 2.5 |