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Ha, you've clearly used better books than me. I've read plenty where they glossed over the notation and expected you to guess.
by nicoburns 5y ago
Ha, you've clearly used better books than me. I've read plenty where they glossed over the notation and expected you to guess.
- ColinWright 5y agoOften books assume some prerequisites, the question here is the level of those prerequisites. Some books try to include all the necessary background, others assume a pre-existing base level of knowledge. Different authors, different books, different audiences, and different contexts.
- bajsejohannes 5y agoIt's not entirely unlikely that I am remembering just the good stuff :) But I was surprised how many books would define even the most common notation, like ⊂, ∀, and ∃. I guess if you call your book "Introduction to..." you ought to do that. And it seems that all books were called that, regardless of how narrow and advanced the rest of the title was :)