Re:Tulsa Teacher discovers calculus flaw
by burfog on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:27PM
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Fixing the notation would be great, saving numerous future generations from confusion.
Getting agreement to do this is difficult. Short of laying it down in the law as part of a treaty (throw it in with WTO or Berne copyright?) there doesn't seem to be a way to make the change happen. Nobody wants to buy the calculus book with weird non-standard notation. It would be like a trigonometry book with the symbols Feynman invented in high school.
We're more likely to get serious mathematicians calling equations "math sentences".
Getting agreement to do this is difficult. Short of laying it down in the law as part of a treaty (throw it in with WTO or Berne copyright?) there doesn't seem to be a way to make the change happen. Nobody wants to buy the calculus book with weird non-standard notation. It would be like a trigonometry book with the symbols Feynman invented in high school.
We're more likely to get serious mathematicians calling equations "math sentences".