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Super answer! I wish you were one of my professors, and I had excellent professors. If I may humbly add, try making your own notation and playing around with i
by eointierney 5y ago
Super answer! I wish you were one of my professors, and I had excellent professors.
If I may humbly add, try making your own notation and playing around with it. Very rapidly one realizes just how hard a problem good notation is.
- BSOhealth 5y agoRichard Feynman did just this and described it at least in his great autobiography, “Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman!”
- Syzygies 5y agoActually, making my own notation is how I start puzzling out any problem. When one reformulates a problem, the appearance keeps changing but the problem is still there. It often takes multiple reformulations to "see" a problem, unencumbered by artifacts of birth. The other day an EE grad student came to my office to show me his lab's research. After changing notation a couple of times, I was able to recognize that their novel combinatorial problem was an instance of graph coloring.
- eointierney 5y agoCan your lectures be shared online? I would love to watch you create notation.