There is no single unified math notation. Different fields of mathematics use the same notation to mean different things, and many mathematicians use different

There is no single unified math notation. Different fields of mathematics use the same notation to mean different things, and many mathematicians use different notations to mean the same things. Worse, the notations that most mathematicians use are ambiguous; they often leave out critical information merely because the writer can assume that the reader is human, and can puzzle those things out from the context. When we are programming, we do not have that luxury. The book Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics uses both a modified traditional notation as well as runnable Scheme throughout. I recommend reading at least the preface: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/sicm_edition_2/preface001.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...