Re:Confessions of a Math Idiot
by davidmathers on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:15AM
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Sussman's critique of mathematical notation is hollow.
I don't do enough math to have a useful opinion, but it strikes me that something as simple as 1 + 1 = 2 is ambiguous (does f = x+x or x+1?) and using unambiguous notation would be tedious and useless.
Unless you're trying to turn it into a program. I sometimes think of programming as the opposite of math.
I don't do enough math to have a useful opinion, but it strikes me that something as simple as 1 + 1 = 2 is ambiguous (does f = x+x or x+1?) and using unambiguous notation would be tedious and useless.
Unless you're trying to turn it into a program. I sometimes think of programming as the opposite of math.