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Collection of quotes on notation design & how it affects thought.
This Quora post [Is there an objectively best base number system?](https://www.quora.com/Is-there-an-objectively-best-base-number-system) has several good answers. Some highlights: * [Quarter-Imaginary](https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Quater-imaginary_base) * [Cistercian numerals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals) * [Balanced ternary](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cit590-2015/Pages/balanced-ternary.html) There was also mention of...
http://www.turingarchive.org/viewer/?id=128&title=01
Everybody is familiar with one special case of an Iverson-like convention, the “Kronecker delta” symbol δik = 1 , i = k; 0 , i 6= k. (1.16) You certainly...
It currently points to (basically) a 404 page.
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benefits-of-writing-vector-inner-products-as-langle-u-v-rangle/366118#366118
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Expression-of-Ideas/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q (The slides are also available)
I think Aaronson's post would be a good addition. https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
Nice collection! Maybe the area of diagrammatic thinking is also interesting to you: - http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/d/diagrammatic-thinking/diagrammatic-thinking-alexander-gerner.html - https://www.amazon.de/Thinking-Diagrams-Cognition-Semiotics-Communication/dp/1501511696 - http://www.springer.com/de/book/9781402056512 Krämer is interesting here, because she thinks of notation more as...
Have you read this book, ["Where Mathematics Comes From"](https://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Come-Embodied-Brings/dp/0465037712)? You may enjoy it.
http://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/MathematicalClassificationofPhysicalQuantities_Maxwell.pdf
