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> Shouldn't the first adjective be something related to what math users would value? “Beauty” is very important to mathematicians. Check out the Wikipedia arti
by nitsky 6y ago
> Shouldn't the first adjective be something related to what math users would value?
“Beauty” is very important to mathematicians. Check out the Wikipedia article on the subject:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_beauty
- anon_tor_12345 6y agobut not this kind of beauty. first sentence of the linked wiki >Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure typically derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. not of the type setting of mathematics (that's just regular plain old aesthetical beauty).
- zem 6y agoperhaps more relevant is how knuth literally took a decade off from writing his books to write a better typesetting system.