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> Simple errors like these cover maybe 0.01% of the issues in a common math paper draft. And yet I wasted lots of time trying to make sense of papers containin
by perlgeek 12y ago
> Simple errors like these cover maybe 0.01% of the issues in a common math paper draft.
And yet I wasted lots of time trying to make sense of papers containing such errors. So I would appreciate such a tool.
- jordigh 12y agoTerry Tao has a blog post about these "compilation errors": However, when, as a graduate student, one encounters the task of reading a technical mathematical paper for the first time, it is often the case that one loses much of one's higher reading skills, reverting instead to a more formal and tedious line-by-line interpretation of the text. As a consequence, a single typo or undefined term in the paper can cause one's comprehension of the paper to grind to a complete halt, in much the same way that it would to a computer. https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/TGjjJPUdJjk https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27/posts/TGjjJPUdJjk There's more context here: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...