Seconding this, weird notation makes many folks lose morale easily. I guess one watershed moment comes when, having conquered enough notation in specific cases, one realizes it’s just a formal symbol pushing game in general, and then new weird looking notation doesn’t cause a morale crisis.
Novel math papers often just invent new notation as they go.
I’m reminded of Graham’s number (g notation) as an example where new notation (kind of) was invented for the purposes of a math paper.
I read a riveting blog post a few months ago introducing several concepts and building up to graham’s number in a very accessible read if anyone’s interested:
Seconding this, weird notation makes many folks lose morale easily. I guess one watershed moment comes when, having conquered enough notation in specific cases, one realizes it’s just a formal symbol pushing game in general, and then new weird looking notation doesn’t cause a morale crisis.
Novel math papers often just invent new notation as they go.
I’m reminded of Graham’s number (g notation) as an example where new notation (kind of) was invented for the purposes of a math paper.
I read a riveting blog post a few months ago introducing several concepts and building up to graham’s number in a very accessible read if anyone’s interested:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html