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Math for the Layman
- Koshkin 4y ago> the development of computer programming has provided languages with grammars that are simpler and more tractable than that of conventional mathematical notation Not sure about this (I find the conventional notation way more readable), but there are, of course, other notable examples, such as [1] or [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Classical_Mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o... [2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geometry https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
- joe__f 4y agoPaper is two-dimensional, and conventional mathematical notation utilises both of these dimensions. I find mathematical expressions written for computer languages to be more complex to parse and I think a key reason is that the notation is one dimensional