Re:History of Lisp Parentheses (2019)
by qsort on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:57AM
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> That's exactly what they do though.
> and internalizing this is extremely important for beginning math students.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, because, well, you aren't. But does the choice of notation help here? Understanding that a matrix isn't a linear transformation but only a representation of it is something that's inherently hard and requires a certain level of mathematical maturity. At that point in a sense notation doesn't really matter any longer.
> and internalizing this is extremely important for beginning math students.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, because, well, you aren't. But does the choice of notation help here? Understanding that a matrix isn't a linear transformation but only a representation of it is something that's inherently hard and requires a certain level of mathematical maturity. At that point in a sense notation doesn't really matter any longer.