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Sort of like how we use terse symbols for everything because ink and papyrus is expensive.
by kazagistar 13y ago
Sort of like how we use terse symbols for everything because ink and papyrus is expensive.
- na85 13y agoAnd because if you're Isaac Newton and you're writing pages and pages of proofs, you naturally want to use a shorthand in order to save yourself time, energy, and from repetitive strain injury.
- marcosdumay 13y agoNot really. We have some very good reasons for using the definitions we use every day. Those reasons are more related to us than our technology, although our tech is getting so good that we already need to think about it. And by the way, people changed almost all the usual definitions at the XX century. Now, mathematicians do throw the usual definitions away all the time. It's important to know when to reuse other people's coding, or roll your own.