alt Hacker NewsA lot of people here suggesting they'd be great mathematicians if only it wasn't for the pesky notation. What they are missing is that the notation is the easy part..
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matheme • today at 8:52 PM
> What they are missing is that the notation is the easy part.
This is so wrong it can only come from a place of inexperience and ignorance.
Mathematics is flush with inconsistent, abbreviated, and overloaded notation.
Show a child a matrix numerically and they can understand it, show them Ax+s=b, and watch the confusion.
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Indeed, confused people say things that don't make sense.