Re:Experimental music notation resources (2015)
by eru on Sunday May 27, 2018 @12:21PM
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Mathematicians play around with new notation all the time. But yes, mostly hand-written.
The standard notation is mostly for communicating with other people mediated via papers. But we don't actually use that many brackets in math---that's more of a programming thing. (Because programmers can't really use visual structure all that much, and mostly rely on linearization of their syntax trees. Languages with significant whitespace like Haskell (and to a lesser extent Python) see less parens and braces.)
The standard notation is mostly for communicating with other people mediated via papers. But we don't actually use that many brackets in math---that's more of a programming thing. (Because programmers can't really use visual structure all that much, and mostly rely on linearization of their syntax trees. Languages with significant whitespace like Haskell (and to a lesser extent Python) see less parens and braces.)