Re:Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis
by elmomle on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:23PM
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I have found undefined notation to be the bane of my existence when trying to teach myself a field of math. How do you Google mathematical notation? It can be a giant and opaque barrier to deepening one's knowledge when studying the subject on one's own.
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Maybe this will help: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html Then you can e.g. use the name of the TeX command for the symbol to Google its meaning (Stackexchanges are often full of questions looking for the TeX command for a symbol, so you could use these to infer in the other direction)
Thanks--this is most helpful! :)
Strongly agree. It's very difficult to work out what a symbol means if you've never seen it before.
In saying that, in general I've found it's not too bad. Mostly greeks and the occasional symbol like sigma along with some set notation.