"wat ingewikkeld is hoeft niet onduidelijk te zijn."

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QOTD: "wat ingewikkeld is hoeft niet onduidelijk te zijn."
("what is complicated doesn't need to be unclear")
I sign I saw from the train, I'm guessing it's for a consulting firm.

A quote from :

Professor Haff, in lecture: "Mathematics should never be abstract and difficult. From Kindergarten to Ph.D. it doesn't matter; there should always be a simple way to look at things."

I've been selling my ideas about formalization systems as computationals tools for insight, for people to logically refine their half-baked thoughts, i.e. tools for "debugging" your thoughts and ideas. I think that for complicated enough instances of everyday problems that require reasoning (many possibilities, many constraints), a "calculator for reasoning" might come in handy.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't at all agree with that quote; why is there any reason mathematics should be simple? It's nice when there is a simple reason, but that's no cause for us to draw a line around the simple parts and say, "this is what mathematics should be". should building bridges be simple? should performing surgery be simple? Of course there exists a tremendous variety of subdisciplines of math, and there is certainly plenty of beauty to be found in those areas that are incurably, inextricably, difficult, abstract, and complicated.

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