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I find mathematical content to behind the curve when it comes to digitization. The issue I guess is that math is much more expressive than text, and everybody h
by abhinav22 6y ago
I find mathematical content to behind the curve when it comes to digitization. The issue I guess is that math is much more expressive than text, and everybody has a different style.
There is no consensus offline on how to write math (for example I would recommend all variables in proofs to be English letters and not Greek letters - why add additional complexity in terms of digital input by using Greek letters, unless for specific needs, like the constant pi or capital Sigma). Smaller examples would be somebody may write a + b = 3 while somebody else will write x + y = 3 (should there be consistency? I personally don’t think so, but just flagging out that this is a variation too).
- Koshkin 6y ago> English letters Did you mean to say German letters?
- the_svd_doctor 6y agoWell the problem is that it’s easy to run out of letters with only the latin alphabet. Also some fields do have conventions. For instance in numerical linear algebra, many papers us the rules of (1) matrix in roman capital letters (2) vectors in roman normal-size letters (3) scalars in greek normal-size letters.
- abhinav22 6y agoAgree 100% It’s not an easy problem to solve, otherwise it would be done already