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His fundamental conceit, namely that mathematics sometimes suffers from ambiguous or sloppily used notation, is a valid one, and this fact has caused a great de
by pervycreeper 11y ago
His fundamental conceit, namely that mathematics sometimes suffers from ambiguous or sloppily used notation, is a valid one, and this fact has caused a great deal of confusion for a great number of people.
- ajarmst 11y agoThat's a reasonable point, but I wonder if that problem is usually encountered when mathematicians from a particular branch of study read works from a different one whose usages and assumptions differ. I've bounced of it in even very simple areas, like whether 0 is a natural number, whether is is positive or negative (or other), whether 1 is prime, etc. Within the context of a particular community, such ambiguities aren't present.
- archgoon 11y ago"This works perfectly well for communication between researchers in the same field, but may be an obstacle for communication between researchers from different fields or for newcomers such as students" It appears you did not read the abstract after all.
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