Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) 1 year ago
Good point. Notation matters in how we explore ideas.
Reminds me of Richard Feynman. He started inventing his own math notation as a teenager while learning trigonometry. He didn’t like how sine and cosine were written, so he made up his own symbols to simplify the formulas and reduce clutter. Just to make it all more intuitive for him.
And he never stopped. Later, he invented entirely new ways to think about physics tied to how he expressed himself, like Feynman diagrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram) and slash notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_slash_notation).