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I am not very good at classical mathematics. I am quite confident that there are better more intuitive ways of describing the same ideas, so until one such syst

I am not very good at classical mathematics. I am quite confident that there are better more intuitive ways of describing the same ideas, so until one such system emerges I tend to learn the concepts that are being expressed in mathematics and convert them away from mathematics to just a logical description of the operation. I haven’t run across anything in calculus for instance that I can’t describe in python with loops and arrays. One might argue that it is all math ultimately but that’s fine so long as I can deal with the raw idea and not the idea expressed in terms of math operations.

socketnaut 8y ago
You might be more comfortable with Python syntax than with standard mathematical syntax, but I wouldn't think of it as being closer to "just a logical description" or closer to being the "raw idea." You're just choosing to use different notation. I would guess that most people comfortable with both representations would feel that standard mathematical notation is lighter and conveys the "raw idea" more directly.