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It's odd to see mathematicians resistant to quantifying what they believe to be inferior about computer displays They're mathematicians, not display interface
by dogecoinbase 8y ago
It's odd to see mathematicians resistant to quantifying what they believe to be inferior about computer displays
They're mathematicians, not display interface experts. This is like demanding that someone explain to you why they don't like a particular kind of food -- people are allowed to dislike things without having a complete internal axiomatic system justifying it.
- wtallis 8y agoDislike, sure. Personal preferences are acceptable. But claiming that it's impossible for a computer/tablet display to be as readable as paper and that all electronic displays cause more eyestrain is unreasonable. Especially when the person making that claim has already demonstrated that they are familiar with terms like resolution, contrast ratio and form factor, but they fail to even propose a hypothesis for what might still be inferior about the best computer display technologies.
- captain_perl 8y agoMathematicians are happy to use computers for typesetting papers, but not for the initial creative phase: 1) computer displays require you to scroll, which interrupts your mental flow 2) paper and pencil or pen is free-form 3) in advanced mathematics, results are rarely calculated in numerical form, so the computer isn't helpful 4) notebooks are permanent. No backups needed. I imagine the same is true for most cartoon artists.