<story><title>Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/math/se/notation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>qsi</author><text>Without clever innovations in notation, a lot of math (and physics) would be utterly intractable. For instance, without Einstein&amp;#x27;s notation hack [1], using and manipulating tensors is extremely painful. Arguably, General Relativity would not have been possible without the clarity of the Einstein notation.&lt;p&gt;Also long-established notation like integrals and differentials were once new and innovative, and paved the way for new discoveries.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Einstein_notation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Einstein_notation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(edit: capitalize GR, grammar)</text></comment>
<story><title>Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea</title><url>https://blog.plover.com/math/se/notation.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dmart</author><text>An aside, but it’s so nice that interesting discussions like the one linked in the article are allowed to bloom on smaller Stack Exchange sites like Mathematics.&lt;p&gt;I can’t imagine a similar sort of rumination surviving on Stack Overflow or Server Fault, but the discussions in that thread are really interesting to read.</text></comment>