Re: What annoys you in mathematical text?
- From: "David R Tribble" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jun 2006 10:35:14 -0700
Toni Lassila wrote:
So what particular things annoy you when reading a mathematical paper
or a book? I would also appreciate hearing about people's annoyances
that are somewhat non-standard. I mean, everybody hates things like
the overuse of "it's easy to see" and "clearly". What is your pet
peeve of which you'd like to see authors rid themselves?
HopfZ wrote:
2. unexplained hidden assumptions.
Related to both of these is the "here is a very important thoerem,
but I'm only going to show a brief proof which glosses over some of
the harder concepts that you should have accepted as obvious by
this point in the text."
Important theorems, especially those that establish the framework
for the rest of the chapter or book, should be explained thoroughly.
If you don't get it then, you'll be lost for the rest of the course,
and may very well abandon that whole topic of study.
That, and not enough examples given to let a really fundamental
but new concept soak in well.
.
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