ADMIT IT. Most of you math and physics people love what you do because of all the symbols that make you feel smart when you write them down. Now don’t tell me you don’t feel satisfaction when you write
with a sign pen. I know you feel a thrill in your hands and head when you write that fancy S down. Or when you write down a differential equation like
Or some magical series with a lot of Greek letters like
Heh, I bet you also like it when you write down operators that are written down as words, like det(A), ran(f), dom(f), ker(T), dimker(T), dimran(T), and so on and so forth. Tell me, would you like mathematics if had ugly notation like
I hope not. I’m sure you would prefer
because it makes you feel smarter. I know it makes me feel smarter.
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