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> "Looking more like math" is not so vapid. Looking more like math _in itself_ is vapid. Sure, you can make cases for why looking like math is good. But by its
by throwaway999888 11y ago
> "Looking more like math" is not so vapid.
Looking more like math _in itself_ is vapid. Sure, you can make cases for why looking like math is good. But by itself it's vapid.
> Fortunately, we long ago invented and mostly debugged something to make thinking easier: Mathematics. B
Don't conflate mathematical notation with math itself. The great thing about mathematics are the analytical insights, not how those insights are written down.
Is it really the case that we "invented and mostly debugged something to make thinking easier" in the notational sense? Math notation, like most notation, seems as arbitrary as any other invented notation. Was there really some rigour behind it which you can use to claim that it makes "thinking easier"? The question itself of "making thinking easier" through notation is beyond the scope of mathematics. But there are of course interdisciplinary mathematicians.
- Senji 11y agoMath notation is all over the damned place. It's like certain areas of math are allergic to standardized notation or minimization of complexity. Parameters to "functions" go after the function name, or in subscripts, superscripts, in positional slots around symbols like Σ. Lets not even go to the annoying tendency to use single letter variable names.