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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacob...
It's just language. Mathematicians don't invent notation for fun, they do it because they naturally start thinking at a higher level of abstraction. If you're not thinking at that level then, well, it will be all Greek to you.
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17 days ago
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Sometimes they do. There's nothing divine or necessarily rational about notational standards, which can vary greatly even within the same field.
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