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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Subject: Quote by Knuth
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:21:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-69ee8406-1eca-4612-82c6-7a5875d775c3-1626330070181@3c-app-mailcom-bs04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0lsdsaw.fsf@mbork.pl>


> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 6:06 PM
> From: "Marcin Borkowski" <mbork@mbork.pl>
> To: "Emanuel Berg" <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Quote by Knuth
>
>
> On 2021-07-15, at 00:53, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > But without the symbolic notation it isn't really math, is it,
> > because the natural language, no matter how careful one is,
> > can still be misinterpreted, interpreted in several ways, it
> > can be translated, made fun of ...
>
> Interesting, but false.  What Greeks did was most certainly mathematics
> even if they had little to none symbolism.

We don't do greek mathematics anymore.  It was mainly geometric, which became
an ingrained technique that stall development until Liebniz introduced some useful
notation.  Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics needs compact notation.  Inverse Estimation
is another example.

> Also, there's plenty of room for misinterpretation in some mathematical
> notations (multivariate analysis comes to mind).

That is also true, development good notation that helps is a difficult part when
doing mathematics.

> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-05 14:37 append, push, and add-to-list Drew Adams
2021-07-05 14:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 15:19   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 16:18     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-05 16:46     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:54       ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:08         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 15:41   ` tomas
2021-07-05 16:58     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 17:21       ` tomas
2021-07-06  1:17         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:10       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:18         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:11       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 18:39         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 20:35           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:57         ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:16           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:56       ` Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:15         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 19:51     ` Quote by Knuth Jean Louis
2021-07-06 20:06       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 21:57         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-06 22:16           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 22:26             ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-07-06 23:21               ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 16:09                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 17:37                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:41                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  3:08                       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:25                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:18                           ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 16:02               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 16:20                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 17:41                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:43             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 17:49               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  3:05                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  6:50                   ` tomas
2021-07-15  6:55                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  7:11                       ` tomas
2021-07-15 10:55                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:23                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:22                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:20                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:27                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 19:24               ` Jean Louis
2021-07-14 20:15                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 20:30                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-14 20:58                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 22:54                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 21:04                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-14 23:05                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 22:53                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  6:06                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-15  6:21                         ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-07-17 18:43                           ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-18  7:41                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 11:50                               ` Jean Louis
2021-07-18 13:17                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 13:41                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-07-18 17:57                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 23:25                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 16:27                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-20 16:39                                     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:58                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 16:41                                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:54                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-20 17:10                                 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 13:54                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-18 22:37                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-18 22:34                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 22:43                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-14 22:31                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-15  2:58                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-15  6:43                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-18 22:14                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-19  7:07                       ` tomas
2021-07-19  8:05                         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-21  4:52                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21  8:55                             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-21  4:28                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-21  8:42                           ` Gregory Heytings
2021-07-19  8:44                       ` lisa-asket
2021-07-06 21:34       ` Christopher Dimech
2021-07-05 16:19   ` [External] : Re: append, push, and add-to-list Drew Adams
2021-07-05 16:41     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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