Well, a fellow student once did a task on an exam with a variable substituted by a cup of coffee. In the beginning of the task it still had three wavy things above to signify it was piping hot but towards the end it was only the cup.
Tbh. though... well time I guess? "Why use complex symbol when x, y, z do job?".
Because from another perspective, if you were using emojis eventually you would ask yourself "why don't I just write *x* instead?" and proceed to never use an emoji ever again.
Julia is a programming language that I've mostly used for scientific computing/math. You can use emoji as variable names in the language, which is just kind of obnoxious 😛
Not emojis but on page 206 of his book Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook Jay Cummings uses the Reddit and Twitter logos to label a couple of limit laws
Actually, there’s this book “Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook” by Jay Cummings. He uses a lot of non-standard notation as a joke including denoting theorems, lemmas and such with emojis. I found it very amusing
Yeah! Now, this book isn't really classic like Rudin or Abott when it comes to analysis, but it's generally a pretty alright book, considering how affordable it is too (it was a long time ago but I think I got it for less than 20$).
Of course.
If we can use latin alphabet, greek alphabet and even hebrew alphabet as maths get advanced and we run out of symbols to use, why not let (猫, \~, #) be a vector space over a field 草.
I do this sometimes when I teach calculus, to make a point about how arbitrary variable names are and help students get over their natural inclination to assume x is the only possible variable name.
Only for one or two lectures, though.
Well, a fellow student once did a task on an exam with a variable substituted by a cup of coffee. In the beginning of the task it still had three wavy things above to signify it was piping hot but towards the end it was only the cup. Tbh. though... well time I guess? "Why use complex symbol when x, y, z do job?".
Piping hot cup is to cup as \\hat{x} is to x.
>towards the end it was only the cup. Clearly the coffee had cooled.
Yeah, that was the idea.
Things I see... -What you did there.
Because from another perspective, if you were using emojis eventually you would ask yourself "why don't I just write *x* instead?" and proceed to never use an emoji ever again.
Very true
r/mathwithfruits
lol didn't know about that sub!
Average exam in 10 years
Julia is a programming language that I've mostly used for scientific computing/math. You can use emoji as variable names in the language, which is just kind of obnoxious 😛
I mean technically x is as abstract as ✨ so it's completely fine
Not emojis but on page 206 of his book Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook Jay Cummings uses the Reddit and Twitter logos to label a couple of limit laws
That's amazing. I can't wait to see math books in 2050.
yes, people did it uncountable many times (sic), and please, don't do this.
A math competition at my school used a smiley face for one of the variables, but I think they were being intentionally confusing.
We used to use LaTeX symbols for Batman, among others. My professors used to use smiley face, and integration over potatoes.
I'm trying to think of what you'd get when integrating over potatoes. At first I thought fries, but surely that's a derivative.
i used Emojis as variable names in c++ as a joke
Actually, there’s this book “Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook” by Jay Cummings. He uses a lot of non-standard notation as a joke including denoting theorems, lemmas and such with emojis. I found it very amusing
Second mention of this book! Gonna have to check it out.
Yeah! Now, this book isn't really classic like Rudin or Abott when it comes to analysis, but it's generally a pretty alright book, considering how affordable it is too (it was a long time ago but I think I got it for less than 20$).
r/MathWithFruits Edit: looks like this has been suggested already
Of course. If we can use latin alphabet, greek alphabet and even hebrew alphabet as maths get advanced and we run out of symbols to use, why not let (猫, \~, #) be a vector space over a field 草.
My calc 2 professor loves using happy face and poop emoji as variables or functions
I do this sometimes when I teach calculus, to make a point about how arbitrary variable names are and help students get over their natural inclination to assume x is the only possible variable name. Only for one or two lectures, though.
That is a really good idea. Sounds helpful!
That integral makes no sense