Timeline for What motivates a mathematical definition?
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| Oct 8 at 9:46 | history | edited | Richard Kirk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5 at 15:05 | history | edited | Richard Kirk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5 at 15:03 | comment | added | Richard Kirk | @Ooker It is hard to answer the question as it is posed, because there doesn't seem to be a formal design process for mathematical notation. It might be nice if there was. Instead, we have some informal competition until there is general agreement. A formal definition may be drafted by a committee long after the real choices have been made. Or am I wrong? Do you know of a counter-example? | |
| Oct 5 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ooker | This is a interesting read about notation, but I'm not sure how it answers the question? The question is about why a definition is chosen and others are not, not about how a notation of a definition is chosen | |
| Oct 5 at 11:18 | history | answered | Richard Kirk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |