University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathematics (2016) [pdf]

Re:University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathe... by kbart on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:46AM (#13885416)

We don't do math in human language for the same reason we don't write computer programs in human language: it's ambiguous and hard to define abstract objects using it. Only abstraction enables us to operate higher level, non-trivial problems.

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Re:University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathe... by ashark on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:56AM (#13885488)

I just wish Math followed programming best-practices on commenting, variable naming, and including tests and their expected output. Bonus for IDE-like tools that can instantly tell me the type of a symbol or show me the expanded version of an operation.

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Re:University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathe... by tnecniv on Thursday March 16, 2017 @02:55PM (#13887914)

I agree, maybe because I learned to program way before I got into rigorous math. I really wish the community standardized notation more.

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Re:University of Tokyo Graduate School Entrance Exam – Mathe... by kbart on Thursday March 16, 2017 @11:12AM (#13885641)

Matlab then?

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