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A comment on Problems of Traditional Math Notation (2004).

Re:Problems of Traditional Math Notation (2004) by dahart on Sunday November 05, 2017 @10:08PM (#15633228)
The examples in the article don't bother me much, but I've noticed that I struggle a lot more when it comes to linear algebra. It might be due to less experience, but I can easily lose track of which things are scalars vs vectors vs matrices vs tensors. I'm noticing it right now working through various tutorials on neural networks... I get the concepts easily but when I sit down to implement, translating the notation into code is a lot more difficult than the scalar functions I'm used to.
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Re:Problems of Traditional Math Notation (2004) by Grustaf on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:31PM (#15638758)
Some authors use conventions such as boldface for vectors and capital letters for matrices. There are also often conventions around different types of e.g. scalars. a, b, c are typically used for different things than i, j, k, within a text.
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Re:Problems of Traditional Math Notation (2004) by Xcelerate on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:43PM (#15633484)
Matrix and trace derivatives became a lot easier when I started doing it all in index notation.
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