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1. I came into this thread expecting to find a math expert of some sort defending their "programming language". Thank you for not letting me down! 2. It depend
by darkxanthos 14y ago
1. I came into this thread expecting to find a math expert of some sort defending their "programming language". Thank you for not letting me down!
2. It depends on context. The people writing and manipulating mathematical formulae LOVE the short hand I'm sure... but for consumers of the information perhaps it's less than ideal.
- dubya 14y agoThis thread would be more informative if the post author had said _what_ he was trying to read. Most math is written to communicate with other mathematicians, so if he grabbed some random paper off of ArXiv then it's not at all surprising he found it hard to read. It also makes a difference if he's trying to actually learn about a subject, or just to apply some formulas without necessarily understanding him. Math is written differently for specialist and beginner audiences, with the very terse "CRC Handbook of X" off on some other axis.