[rpz]

Agreed. Interesting thought: Would you or anyone else here also agree that it is generally easier to write mathematical notation than to read it?

In my experience its much easier to write almost anything, whether it be code, poetry, english, etc. As opposed to reading it. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

Edit: Maybe i shouldnt say much easier. One could argue its much easier to read a novel than it is to write one, and i'd agree :)

[akira2501]

> Would you or anyone else here also agree that it is generally easier to write mathematical notation than to read it?

Yes. In my estimation, it's due to a much higher density of conceptual ideas being expressed. I honestly prefer imperative code for stepping through a new idea because it simply can't be expressed in most dense and compressed form and probably because it's what I'm most familiar with.

> One could argue its much easier to read a novel than it is to write one, and i'd agree :)

I think it's because novels assume you're starting from a position of ignorance. Probably why I could never read Pynchon.

[yiyus]

I like writing using mathematical notation. I like trying to express as much as possible using as few symbols as possible, and not as much rigour as I should. It's something that I used to do to study and I keep doing it for work now. It helps me to understand things better, but I don't think anybody else could understand what I write.

[thisrod]

This is a trade off. It's always easy to write unreadable stuff, hard to write stuff that's easy to read, and very hard to write stuff that's easy to read yet long enough to say something worth hearing.

[vlasev]

Yes. It's quite easy to build up expressions one by one, whereas when you read those expressions, your eye and mind won't necessarily track through the same "derivation".