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Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

I'm still heavily hampered and embarassed by my inability to process much mathematical notation easily in compsci papers :\

Abbie Normal @catonano@mastodon.social

@cwebber

we all are

That's why the lesson of the SICP about how the functions commonly used in calculus can be expressed as scheme idioms is so important

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@catonano There's also a really good preface in SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics) where they tear apart how bad much of mathematical notation is. I also had a conversation with Sussman in person where I admitted how bad I am at reading math notation and he said "everyone has a hard time, because mathematical notation is a natural language"

A natural language! I never thought of it that way.

Abbie Normal @catonano@mastodon.social

@cwebber

I planned to read it last autumn, but that plan went south

I'll read it sooner or later

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@catonano I haven't managed to make any headway into it beyond the preface ;)

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