Timeline for Does the usage of mathematical symbols work differently in books than in theses?
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| May 17, 2019 at 17:14 | comment | added | paul garrett | @SolarMike, I don't see how you are interpreting my comment as "some understanding is better than thorough grasp". In any case, I meant to say, again, that I want my students to be able to explain (to me, for example) the context sufficiently to justify (to me, for example) a supposed parsing of symbols. I am intending that this be a better understanding rather than a too-glib, superficial one (that may also be "brittle" or non-robust under context-shifts). | |
| May 17, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | Solar Mike | so you’re saying an answer is better than the correct answer or "some understanding" is better than a thorough grasp - bridges fall down for less... | |
| May 17, 2019 at 16:45 | comment | added | paul garrett | @SolarMike, presumably symbols refer to things which have a larger existence/sense/context than that single symbol. One of the points I try to make with my grad students (in math, in the U.S.) is to not get hung up in symbols, to use context to make sense of things, and so on. If someone's writing something to be checkable/readable, I'd want to also be able to check what the symbols referred to, etc. Seems like it'd be good practice. | |
| May 17, 2019 at 6:40 | comment | added | Solar Mike | Using the wrong "tau" in a calculation for a real engineering problem will never be a "non-issue"... | |
| May 16, 2019 at 23:20 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |