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Re:Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjec... by wtallis on Thursday September 20, 2018 @07:11PM (#18036120)
Dislike, sure. Personal preferences are acceptable. But claiming that it's impossible for a computer/tablet display to be as readable as paper and that all electronic displays cause more eyestrain is unreasonable. Especially when the person making that claim has already demonstrated that they are familiar with terms like resolution, contrast ratio and form factor, but they fail to even propose a hypothesis for what might still be inferior about the best computer display technologies.
Re:Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjec... by captain_perl on Thursday September 20, 2018 @11:30PM (#18036983)
Mathematicians are happy to use computers for typesetting papers, but not for the initial creative phase:

1) computer displays require you to scroll, which interrupts your mental flow

2) paper and pencil or pen is free-form

3) in advanced mathematics, results are rarely calculated in numerical form, so the computer isn't helpful

4) notebooks are permanent. No backups needed.

I imagine the same is true for most cartoon artists.